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This is who we are in Fairfax County, based on our most recent demographics report:

There are 1,131,886 of us:

402,362 households living in 413,746 homes.

Our median household income is $113,208:

29,051 of our households have incomes of less than $25,000

82,342 of our households have incomes of $200,000+

(It is important to note that while we are one of the wealthiest by income counties in the country, there is no county income tax.)

New Interactive Data Feature

“We’ve created interactive data visualizations that allow you to explore our demographic data by various geographies and characteristics,” says Anne Cahill, the county’s demographer. “By putting open data into interactive data visualizations, it is easier for you to see patterns and understand the information better than in other formats.”

The nine interactive profiles available to date include community profiles, occupations, languages spoken at home and immigrants.

Explore Interactive Data

2016 Demographics Report

Our latest annual demographics report is now available with a wide range of information on our diversity, employment, education and future projections, too.

For example, here is a projection of where our population growth will be in the county through 2045:

Three key trends from the report:

Home Values

In January 2016, the median market value of owned housing in Fairfax County reached $498,341, an increase of 1.3 percent from the year before (Note: market values are different than real estate assessments).

Housing Growth

Our community added more than 1,500 housing units during 2016. Strong development activity is being seen in the Silver Line Metro corridor and the majority of units being built are multifamily units. A third of these new housing units are located in low-rise multifamily buildings (under five stories) and almost an additional third are in high-rise buildings (nine stories or higher).

Housing Forecast

Through 2045, it is expected that the county will add an additional 133,600 housing units and that multifamily units will comprise 85 percent of those built.

Read Full Demographics Report

The information, broken down by supervisor districts, towns, planning districts, human services regions, zip codes and census tracts, can be used by county government, businesses, organizations and others for a variety of purposes such as planning for future infrastructure and economic development, program and service planning, budgeting and more.

2016 Demographics Report (PDF)