Because of many things, Iowa Park is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Iowa Park really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Iowa Park perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.30 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small city, Iowa Park does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Iowa Park who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.95% of the adults in Iowa Park have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Iowa Park in 2022 was $34,128, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $136,512 for a family of four. However, Iowa Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Iowa Park is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Iowa Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Iowa Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Iowa Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.95% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Iowa Park include German, English, Irish, French, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Iowa Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
