Overall, Iola’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Iola has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Iola has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Iola than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Iola may be for you.
One downside of living in Iola, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.60 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small city, Iola does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Iola are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.04% of adults in Iola have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Iola in 2022 was $27,514, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,056 for a family of four. However, Iola contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Iola is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Iola home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Iola residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Iola also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.06% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Iola include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Iola is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
