The overall crime rate in Ben Wheeler is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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 47.18 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.
In Ben Wheeler, just 12.09% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
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.
