Fairfax County

administration
US state :	Virginia
Administrative headquarters :	Fairfax
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Government Center 12000 Government Center Parkway Fairfax, VA 22035-0066
Foundation :	1742
Made up from:	Prince William County Loudoun County
Area code :	001 703
Demographics
Residents :	1,081,726  (2010)
Population density :	1,057.4 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area :	1053 km²
Water surface :	30 km²
map
Website : www.fairfaxcounty.gov

Fairfax County is a county in the state of Virginia in the United States . At the 2010 census , the population was 1,081,726 people and the population density was 1,057 people per square kilometer. Fairfax County is thus both the most populous county in Virginia, as well as in the greater Washington, DC area. The administrative seat ( county seat ) is Fairfax . After neighboring Loudoun County , Fairfax residents have the second highest median household income of any county in the United States . The Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), the US foreign intelligence service, has its headquarters in the city of Langley .

geography

Fairfax County is located in the extreme northeast of Virginia, borders Maryland to the northeast and southwest and has an area of ​​1,053 square kilometers, of which 30 square kilometers are water. It encloses Arlington County and the city of Alexandria in the east and thus borders on the closer districts of the metropolitan area Washington DC. The border with Maryland is formed by the Potomac River . The county is divided into nine districts: Braddock District, Dranesville District, Hunter Mill District, Lee District, Mason District, Mount Vernon District, Providence District, Springfield District, Sully District. To the southwest and northwest of Fairfax are the counties of Prince William and Loudoun .

USA Today headquarters in Tysons Corner

history

Thomas Fairfax

The county was formed in 1742 from parts of Prince William County . The name is derived from Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron . In 1757, two-thirds of the area in the northwest were separated to form Loudoun County . During the American Civil War , on July 21, 1861, the first and from August 28 to 30, 1862 the second battle of the Bull Run took place in the county . This was followed by the battle of the same name at Chantilly.

The expansion of the civil service in the United States since World War II led to the settlement of many federal agencies and government-related institutions in the following decades , e.g. B. Freddie Mac , Fort Belvoir, and the Defense Logistics Agency . At the same time, the relocation of Washington-Dulles Airport also attracted numerous companies, including B. Northrop Grumman , Booz Allen Hamilton , Capital One , Gannett, and General Dynamics . Fairfax County's economy today is highly service-driven, particularly public and financial services, and high technology . Fairfax now has a higher concentration of employees in the high-tech sector than in Silicon Valley . As a result, the population has increased rapidly since then and suburbanization has continued to this day .

In 1968 the Tysons Corner Center was opened in Tysons Corner at what had been a quiet, rural intersection, one of the first fully air-conditioned shopping malls in the country, which has since been expanded several times. In the period that followed, a mixture of other shopping malls, freeways and a large number of office palaces emerged around the shopping center, which has now become symbolic of the development of the US metropolises on the outskirts of the city ​​in recent decades. With a total of 2,390,000 square meters of office space, Tysons Corner is the largest suburban office and business district in the United States.

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents		± in%
1790	12,320		-
1800	13,317		8.1%
1810	13,111		-1.5%
1820	11,404		-13%
1830	9204		-19.3%
1840	9370		1.8%
1850	10,682		14%
1860	11,834		10.8%
1870	12,952		9.4%
1880	16,025		23.7%
1890	16,655		3.9%
1900	18,580		11.6%
1910	20,536		10.5%
1920	21,943		6.9%
1930	25,264		15.1%
1940	40,929		62%
1950	98,557		140.8%
1960	275.002		179%
1970	455.021		65.5%
1980	596.901		31.2%
1990	818,584		37.1%
2000	969.749		18.5%
2010	1,081,726		11.5%
Before 1900 1900-1990 2000

The Lake Caroline in Meadowlark Botanical Gardens

Fort Belvoir, headquarters of the Defense Logistics Agency

Fairfax County Age Pyramid

According to the 2000 census , Fairfax County had 969,749 people in 350,714 households and 250,409 families. The population density was 948 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 69.91 percent white , 8.57 percent African American , 0.26 percent American Indian , 13 percent Asian American , 0.07 percent Pacific islander and 4.54 percent from other ethnic groups; 3.65 percent were descended from two or more races . 11.03 percent of the population were Hispanics or Latinos .

Of the 350,714 households, 36.3 percent had children and adolescents under the age of 18 living with them. 59.4 percent were married couples living together, 8.6 percent were single mothers, 28.6 percent were non-families, 21.4 percent were single households and 4.8 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.74 and the average family size was 3.20.

For the entire county, the population was composed of 25.4 percent of residents under 18 years of age, 7.5 percent between 18 and 24 years of age, 33.9 percent between 25 and 44 years of age, 25.3 percent between 45 and 64 years of age 7.9 percent were 65 years of age or over. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 98.6 males. For every 100 women aged 18 or over there were statistically 96.2 men.

Fairfax County is considered one of the wealthiest counties in the United States in terms of median household income. The median income for a household in the county is $ 81,050 , and the median income for a family is $ 92,146. Males had a median income of $ 60,503 versus $ 41,802 for females. The per capita income was $ 36,888. 3.0 percent of families and 4.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line. Of these, 5.2 percent were children or adolescents under 18 years of age and 4.0 percent were people over 65 years of age.

cities and communes

There are three self-governing municipalities ( Incorporated Towns ) Clifton , Herndon and Vienna within the county . Fairfax , the seat of the county, does not belong to the county itself. Other significant locations are Annandale , Burke , Great Falls , Huntington , McLean , Reston and Tysons Corner .

The small town of Wolf Trap is known for the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts and the Wolf Trap Opera Company there .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fairfax County in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey . Retrieved February 22, 2011.
2. ^ High-Tech, High-Income, High-Polluting Virginia
3. ^ US Census Bureau _ Census of Population and Housing . Retrieved February 28, 2011
4. ↑ Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 28, 2011
5. ↑ Excerpt from factfinder.census.gov.Retrieved February 28, 2011
6. ^ Fairfax County, Virginia , 2000 census datasheet at factfinder.census.gov .

Web links

Commons : Fairfax County, Virginia  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Coordinates: 38 ° 50 ′  N , 77 ° 17 ′  W