Iola, Texas.
Typical home $499,618 (-0.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,471 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,697 -1%
- $503,315$499,618 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $90,215 +22%
- $409,404$499,618 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Iola$2,622
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Iola, TX fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Iola, Grimes County, Texas
Iola is a city of 311 people in Grimes County. Unemployment in Grimes County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 6.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grimes County work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Iola is a very small city in Grimes County, Texas, where everyone is likely to know one another by sight. Homes here are valued well above what you might expect for a place this size. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers run hot, especially in August. Rain falls through the year in fair amounts.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, shops and manufacturing. Not many people work from home, and the typical drive to work is a long one. Across Grimes County, some of the largest workplaces are Navasota ISD, National Oilwell Varco and MidSouth Electric Co-op.
Things to do. Most outings from Iola mean a longer drive. Fort Boggy State Park is a protected area for time outdoors, and Gibbons Creek Reservoir offers water to visit. The George Bush Presidential Library is a museum worth the trip, and it is also a longer drive away.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Grimes County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grimes County had 8,470 jobs in 2025, 6.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 71°. About 47 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Madisonville weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grimes County
- Navasota ISDSchool district400FTE
- National Oilwell VarcoFabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe336
- Inguran LLC (dba Stgenetics)Livestock breeding services248
- MidSouth Electric Co-opDistribution of electric power225
- Champion Home Builders NavasotaManufactured homes manufacturing200
- Summit Precast ConcreteConcrete products, precast, manufacturing146
- Anderson-shiro CisdSchool district137FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores106
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,431 people in all across the county; Iola has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Iola’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Grimes County.
Iola home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Iola$499,618
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Iola listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Iola20.01%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Iola24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Iola address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Iola — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.