Ben Wheeler is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 456 people and three associated neighborhoods, Ben Wheeler is the 950th largest community in Texas. Much of the housing stock in Ben Wheeler was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Ben Wheeler economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Ben Wheeler, where the median household income is $113,099.00.Ben Wheeler is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Ben Wheeler is a town of construction workers and builders, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ben Wheeler who work in management occupations (26.42%), office and administrative support (20.41%), and healthcare (6.46%). Ben Wheeler’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live. The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Ben Wheeler has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ben Wheeler a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Ben Wheeler is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ben Wheeler, the average commute to work is 45.81 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small town, Ben Wheeler does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Ben Wheeler are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.44% of adults in Ben Wheeler have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Ben Wheeler in 2022 was $33,239, 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 $132,956 for a family of four. However, Ben Wheeler contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Ben Wheeler is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ben Wheeler home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ben Wheeler residents report their race to be White. Ben Wheeler also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.02% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ben Wheeler include English, Irish, Italian, French, and German. The most common language spoken in Ben Wheeler is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Greek.
