Willis is a somewhat small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 5,366 people and two associated neighborhoods, Willis is the 119th largest community in Virginia.Willis is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Willis is a town of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Willis who work in healthcare (11.96%), business and financial occupations (7.19%), and office and administrative support (7.18%). Overall, Willis’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. 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!) Willis 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. Willis has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Willis than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Willis may be for you. In Willis, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.51 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Being a small town, Willis does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Willis is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.45% of adults 25 and older in Willis have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Willis in 2022 was $41,138, which is upper middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $164,552 for a family of four. However, Willis contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Willis home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Willis residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Willis include German, English, Scots-Irish, Irish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Willis is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
