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SheetVA-ASHBURN-VA · Ashburn, VA 45,551 pop · income 94th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Ashburn
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Ashburn on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Blacksburg · lowest
48,070
Blacksburg · lowest
48,070 median HH income
26.8% of the leader · rank #1
Hermosa Beach · near
152,019
Hermosa Beach · near
152,019 median HH income
84.9% of the leader · rank #2
Yorba Linda · near
152,060
Yorba Linda · near
152,060 median HH income
84.9% of the leader · rank #3
Bass Lake · near
152,083
Bass Lake · near
152,083 median HH income
84.9% of the leader · rank #4
Aledo · near
152,083
Aledo · near
152,083 median HH income
84.9% of the leader · rank #5
Ashburn · this city
152,094
Ashburn · this city
152,094 median HH income
84.9% of the leader · rank #6
Burke · highest
179,063
Burke · highest
179,063 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Ashburn on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 45,551.
Ashburn ranks in the 94th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
94th
percentile, household income
92nd
percentile, home value
62nd
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Ashburn, VA
Virginia's Ashburn is a small city, with 45,551 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Ashburn brings in $152,094 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.3%. Ashburn's housing stock carries a median value of $659,000, and the median resident age is 41.3 years. Educational attainment runs 65.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 65.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 25 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
Virginia tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: the state registers 101.1 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,369 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Virginia's average monthly utility costs around $235 (state average). FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 33.3 out of 100 (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Ashburn's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from schools and households to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Ashburn, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Ashburn?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 25 public schools within the city match. 65.9% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Which cities make useful reference points for Ashburn?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
Within Virginia, the closest population matches are Blacksburg (45,288 residents, $48,070 income); Charlottesville (45,863 residents, $69,829 income); Lake Ridge (45,007 residents, $120,844 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Elmhurst, IL (45,538 residents); Odenton, MD (45,585 residents); Keller, TX (45,598 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
What does the journey to work look like in Ashburn?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 63.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
How far does income reach against housing in Ashburn?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Virginia average
B+
City profile score · Ashburn, VA
78/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Household income A+
$152,094
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
65.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living F
101.1 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Ashburn profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 97/100 (A+) · $152,094
Bachelor's+ share: 95/100 (A+) · 65.9%
Poverty rate: 84/100 (A-) · 2.3%
Cost of living: 35/100 (F) · 101.1 index
How does Ashburn compare to other US cities?
Ashburn measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income94% higher than other cities
Home value92% pricier than other cities
Median rent62% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Ashburn against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Virginia only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Virginia-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Ashburn near the bottom of Virginia's cities
Among the 619 Virginia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Ashburn ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Ashburn only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#68 of 558
88th percentile in Virginia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 619
0th percentile in Virginia
Median Home Value
#57 of 567
90th percentile in Virginia
Poverty Rate
#416 of 616
31st percentile in Virginia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#72 of 618
88th percentile in Virginia
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Virginia only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
94th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Ashburn's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$659,0008th percentilemore affordable than 8% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Ashburn's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,611 of 15,516
More affordable than 25% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,250 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.3×, Ashburn sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,611 of 15,516 and #2,250 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$152,094Ashburn, VA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Ashburn, VA median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Ashburn, VA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)65.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
45,551
Median Income
$152,094
Median Home Value
$659,000
Median Age
41.3
Poverty Rate
2.3%
Labor force participation
65.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
65.9%
Schools
Total Schools
25
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
63.6%
Carpool
6.2%
Public Transit
2.2%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
25.8%
Other
1.5%
Based on 23,499 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Virginia statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $235
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Virginia at $235 (electricity about $115 , water and sewer about $50 ).
These are Virginia statewide averages, not a meter reading for Ashburn. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Virginia's BEA cost-of-living index is 101.1 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Ashburn is $1,369/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Virginia statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 33.3 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Virginia statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Ashburn sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Ashburn compares to similar-size Virginia cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, NCES CCD, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.