Northern Virginia
“Loudoun County has joined Fairfax and Prince William
counties as one of the three most populous in Virginia, according to an annual
state population estimate released last week by University of Virginia
researchers. Although population growth slowed across much of the state last
year, Loudoun had a steady influx of new residents, pushing the county — one of
the fastest-growing in the nation — ahead of Chesterfield County to claim third
place in the state. Fairfax and Prince William also showed steady growth,
according to the report.
Monday’s report, issued by the Weldon Cooper Center for
Public Service, showed that Virginia’s population overall grew between 2012 and
2013 by less than 1 percent, or about 74,500 people. But between the April 2010
census and the July 1, 2013, estimate in the report, Loudoun had a population
increase of more than 11 percent and a total of nearly 348,000 residents.
Fairfax, topping the list with an estimated 1.1 million
residents, had a population increase of 3.3 percent in the same period. Prince
William, in second place with a population of about 431,000, grew by more than
7 percent, researchers said.”
~Writes Caitlin Gibson of The Washington Post
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