Overall, Ben Wheeler’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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.
In Ben Wheeler, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 47.18 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Ben Wheeler is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of people in Ben Wheeler with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.09% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ben Wheeler in 2022 was $34,914, 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 $139,656 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 14.22% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ben Wheeler include English, Irish, French, Italian, and German.
The most common language spoken in Ben Wheeler is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Greek.
