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Wheeler city, Texas: commercial real estate data.
Wheeler city is a Census city of 1,431 people across 1.53 square miles of land, in Wheeler County. Median household income is $56,346, 71.8 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Wheeler
What Wheeler is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.53 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land935
- County holding the largest share of its areaWheeler County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wheeler
How many people live in Wheeler
- Population1,431
- Median age37.8
- Population under 18410 plus or minus 105
- Share under 1828.7 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Population 65 and over289 plus or minus 71
- Share 65 and over20.2 percent
- Households490
- Family households416
- Share of households that are families84.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wheeler
Income and work in Wheeler
- Median household income$56,346 plus or minus $18,274
- Per capita income$25,668
- Civilian labor force645 plus or minus 153
- Employed617 plus or minus 152
- Unemployed28 plus or minus 23
- Unemployment rate4.3 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Adults 25 and over923
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher84.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher18.4 percent plus or minus 10.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.7 percent plus or minus 5.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wheeler
Housing in Wheeler
- Housing units615
- Occupied units490
- Vacant units125 plus or minus 56
- Vacancy rate20.3 percent plus or minus 8.5
- Owner occupied352 plus or minus 75
- Renter occupied138 plus or minus 60
- Ownership rate71.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$159,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$994
- Annual rent as a share of median income21.2 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Single family units515
- Share single family83.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more11 plus or minus 21
- Share in buildings of two or more1.8 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Mobile homes74 plus or minus 48
- Median year structure built1973
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wheeler
How Wheeler gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute606 plus or minus 150
- Commuting under 15 minutes316 plus or minus 117
- Share commuting under 15 minutes52.1 percent plus or minus 14.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more190 plus or minus 100
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more31.4 percent plus or minus 14.5
- Drove alone81.4 percent
- Carpooled9.7 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.2 percent plus or minus 0.3
- Worked from home1.8 percent plus or minus 2.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wheeler
SBA loans in Wheeler (504)
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$830,000
- Average approval$830,000
- Median approval$830,000
- Largest approval$830,000
- Jobs supported3
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Wheeler
Flood risk in Wheeler
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number480657
- Currently effective map date07/01/88(L)
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Wheeler County, not Wheeler
Wheeler County context, not Wheeler figures
These are Wheeler County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Wheeler measurements.
- Establishments in Wheeler County173
- Employment at those establishments, Wheeler County1,087
- Covered employment, Wheeler County1,719
- Average annual pay, Wheeler County$45,382
- Average weekly wage, Wheeler County$873
- Housing units permitted, Wheeler County0
- Of those, single family, Wheeler County0
- County product, 2024, Wheeler County$394,205,000
- County product change over the prior year, Wheeler County-16.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Wheeler County$45,573
Every figure in this section is published for Wheeler County as a whole and is not a measurement of Wheeler. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Wheeler questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Wheeler, Texas?
1,431, in 490 households. Wheeler city covers 1.53 square miles of land, which is 935 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Wheeler in?
Wheeler County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Wheeler?
$56,346. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $159,000. Median gross rent is $994 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Wheeler in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Wheeler appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 480657, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Wheeler figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Wheeler County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Wheeler.
Is zoning published for Wheeler?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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