The Wil District had a population of as of . Of the foreign population , 947 were from
Germany, 2,336 were from
Italy, 6,127 were from ex-
Yugoslavia, 439 were from
Austria, 820 were from
Turkey, and 2,029 were from other countries. Also , 58,596 people spoke
German, 196 people spoke
French, 1,494 people spoke
Italian, and 81 people spoke
Romansh. there were 8,002 people (12.1% of the population) who were living alone in a private dwelling. There were 14,333 (21.6%) people who were part of a couple (married or otherwise committed) without children, and 37,617 (56.7%) who were part of a couple with children. There were 3,380 (5.1%) people who lived in single parent home, while there were 399 people who were adult children living with one or both parents. 269 people lived in a household made up of relatives, 444 lived in households made up of unrelated people, and 1,906 were either institutionalized or lived in another type of collective housing. Out of the total population in Region Wil, , the highest education level completed by 13,989 people (21.1% of the population) was
Primary, while 24,675 people (37.2%) completed
Secondary. 7,191 people (10.8%) attended a
Tertiary school, and 2,931 people (4.4%) did not attend school. The remainder did not answer this question. ==Economy==