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. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Ben Wheeler, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Ben Wheeler, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Ben Wheeler’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Ben Wheeler does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $113,099.00.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Ben Wheeler is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-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%). It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Ben Wheeler has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Ben Wheeler has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ben Wheeler than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ben Wheeler may be for you. One downside of living in Ben Wheeler, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 45.81 minutes every day commuting to work. Being a small town, Ben Wheeler does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Ben Wheeler with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 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.
