Willoughby is a medium-sized city located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 24,130 people and six associated neighborhoods, Willoughby is the 70th largest community in Ohio.Willoughby is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Willoughby is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Willoughby who work in management occupations (12.90%), office and administrative support (10.61%), and sales jobs (10.50%). Also of interest is that Willoughby has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. A relatively large number of people in Willoughby telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.49% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. The education level of Willoughby citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 33.79% of adults in Willoughby have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Willoughby in 2022 was $42,403, which is wealthy relative to Ohio, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $169,612 for a family of four. However, Willoughby contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Willoughby home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Willoughby residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Willoughby include German, Italian, Irish, English, and Slovene. The most common language spoken in Willoughby is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and Serbo-Croatian.
