Willoughby Hills is a somewhat small city located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 8,668 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Willoughby Hills is the 210th largest community in Ohio.

Unlike some cities, Willoughby Hills isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Willoughby Hills are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Willoughby Hills is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Willoughby Hills who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.62%), sales jobs (13.08%), and management occupations (11.36%).

Also of interest is that Willoughby Hills has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

For a small city, there is also a high proportion of single, often educated, people living in Willoughby Hills. This is not typical for most smaller communities in America, and adds a feeling of vibrancy to Willoughby Hills.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Willoughby Hills is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Willoughby Hills is a small city, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Willoughby Hills, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.02% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

As is often the case in a small city, Willoughby Hills doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Willoughby Hills Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Willoughby Hills is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.22% of adults in Willoughby Hills have a college degree.

The per capita income in Willoughby Hills in 2000 was $26,688, which is wealthy relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $106,752 for a family of four.

The people who call Willoughby Hills home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Willoughby Hills is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Willoughby Hills include German, Italian, Slovene, Irish, English, Croatian, Polish, and Hungarian.

The most common language spoken in Willoughby Hills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Other Slavic languages and Serbo-Croatian.