Wilsonville, Oregon

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 17.9 km² (6.9 mi²). 17.4 km² (6.7 mi²) of it is land and 0.5 km² (0.2 mi²) of it (2.75%) is water.

[edit] Demographics

As of the census^GR2 of 2000, there were 13,991 people, 5,937 households, and 3,775 families residing in the city. The population density was 805.1/km² (2,085.3/mi²). There were 6,407 housing units at an average density of 368.7/km² (954.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 90.45% White, 0.66% African American, 0.70% Native American, 2.22% Asian, 0.16% Pacific Islander, 3.15% from other races, and 2.65% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.94% of the population.

There were 5,937 households out of which 30.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.5% were married couples living together, 8.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.4% were non-families. 28.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.34 and the average family size was 2.89.

In the city the population was spread out with 24.6% under the age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24, 31.4% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 14.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 94.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.7 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $52,515, and the median income for a family was $65,172. Males had a median income of $43,480 versus $28,395 for females. The per capita income for the city was $29,786. About 3.0% of families and 5.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.7% of those under age 18 and 8.2% of those age 65 or over.

[edit] Business and Economy

Wilsonville is mildly famous as the headquarters of Mentor Graphics, a $700 million company that makes software to design integrated circuits. It is also home to Hollywood Entertainment, parent company of Hollywood Video as well InFocus, a producer of multimedia projectors. Xerox has had a large facility in Wilsonville since it acquired the color printing and imaging division of Tektronix corporation in 2000.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Education

Wilsonville High School

[edit] Trivia

The grandson of Daniel Boone, Alphonse Boone, settled in what would later become Wilsonville and established Boone's Ferry across the Willamette River. [1]
In protest of the construction of the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, specifically the effect of the prison on property values, Larry Eaton began erecting school buses on his property. The buses had a worse effect on property values than the prison did.
The former site of Dammasch State Hospital was proposed as a location for Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, but met with much local controversy. Instead, the former hospital building and grounds are currently being used by Villebois, which is a development project.
Living Enrichment Center, a New Thought Church with as many as 3,000 members, was headquartered in Wilsonville from 1992 until 2004. This New Thought church attracted many well known speakers, such as Marianne Williamson, Arun Gandhi, and Jean Houston (the woman famous for teaching Hillary Clinton to "talk to" Eleanor Roosevelt). LEC closed amid public scandal in 2004. The head minister was the defendant in many multi-million-dollar lawsuits. The head minister's husband, Edward Morrissey, later pled guilty to money laundering.
Author Walt Morey owned an estate in Wilsonville. After his death, his widow sold the property to a developer, and the housing development built on that property, Morey's Landing, bears his name. The children's section of the Wilsonville Public Library is dedicated to his memory.
Gordon House, the only house in Oregon to be designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, was located in Wilsonville. After the death of the Gordon family, Gordon House was moved to Oregon Garden. Gordon House is the only Wright house open to the public in the Pacific Northwest.