 It is about 3–4 billion years old and is spinning slowly with a projected rotational velocity of 4 km/s.The star has 1.4 times the mass of the Sun and 1.4 times the Sun's radius.It is radiating more than double the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,963 K.

There is a 12.4-magnitude line-of-sight companion star that is not believed to be gravitationally associated with Iota Persei.