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Iola city, Texas: commercial real estate data.
Iola city is a Census city of 372 people across 1.03 square miles of land, in Grimes County. Median household income is $50,000, 75.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $750,000.
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Iola
What Iola is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.03 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land361 plus or minus 101
- County holding the largest share of its areaGrimes County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Iola
How many people live in Iola
- Population372 plus or minus 104
- Median age46.4
- Population under 1849 plus or minus 33
- Share under 1813.2 percent plus or minus 8.2
- Population 65 and over99 plus or minus 46
- Share 65 and over26.6 percent plus or minus 9.9
- Households186 plus or minus 56
- Family households122 plus or minus 50
- Share of households that are families65.6 percent plus or minus 18.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Iola
Income and work in Iola
- Median household income$50,000 plus or minus $33,227
- Per capita income$28,451
- Civilian labor force181 plus or minus 81
- Employed158 plus or minus 69
- Unemployed23 plus or minus 26
- Unemployment rate12.7 percent plus or minus 13.2
- Adults 25 and over301 plus or minus 90
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher88.4 percent plus or minus 36.7
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher17.6 percent plus or minus 11.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.7 percent plus or minus 7.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Iola
- Housing units230 plus or minus 61
- Occupied units186 plus or minus 56
- Vacant units44 plus or minus 26
- Vacancy rate19.1 percent plus or minus 10.1
- Owner occupied140 plus or minus 52
- Renter occupied46 plus or minus 34
- Ownership rate75.3 percent plus or minus 16.4
- Median owner-occupied home value$133,300 plus or minus $74,236
- Median gross rent, monthly$735
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.6 percent plus or minus 11.7
- Single family units170 plus or minus 54
- Share single family73.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more11 plus or minus 23
- Share in buildings of two or more4.8 percent plus or minus 9.8
- Mobile homes47 plus or minus 29
- Median year structure built1987
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Iola
How Iola gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute153 plus or minus 68
- Commuting under 15 minutes19 plus or minus 23
- Share commuting under 15 minutes12.4 percent plus or minus 14.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more128 plus or minus 64
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more83.7 percent plus or minus 18.5
- Drove alone86.4 percent
- Carpooled13.0 percent plus or minus 22.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.6 percent plus or minus 1.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Iola
SBA loans in Iola (7(a))
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$750,000
- Average approval$375,000
- Median approval$375,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$375,000
- Largest approval$375,000
- Jobs supported64
- Jobs per approval32.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term126 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Grimes County, not Iola
Grimes County context, not Iola figures
These are Grimes County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Iola measurements.
- Establishments in Grimes County530
- Employment at those establishments, Grimes County6,949
- Covered employment, Grimes County7,978
- Average annual pay, Grimes County$60,220
- Average weekly wage, Grimes County$1,158
- Housing units permitted, Grimes County106
- Of those, single family, Grimes County106
- County product, 2024, Grimes County$1,501,227,000
- County product change over the prior year, Grimes County2.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Grimes County$69,628
Every figure in this section is published for Grimes County as a whole and is not a measurement of Iola. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Iola questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Iola, Texas?
372, in 186 households. Iola city covers 1.03 square miles of land, which is 361 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Iola in?
Grimes County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Iola?
$50,000. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $133,300. Median gross rent is $735 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Iola businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $750,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $375,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Iola, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Iola borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Iola. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Iola figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Grimes County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Iola.
Is zoning published for Iola?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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