Fairfax County, VA is located just over 13 miles from our Nation’s Capital. Its million plus residents constitute 13.5% of Virginia’s entire state population. It is home to the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley and 1/2 of the area’s Fortune 500 companies.
Its school system is nationally recognized and it holds the distinction of having Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, rated America’s #1 High School in 2010 by US News and World Report.
It also boasts George Mason University, Northern Virginia Community College, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts and the Patriot Center. Washington Dulles International Airport serves the entire National Capital Region.
Fairfax County is bordered to the North by Loudon County, to the East and South by the Potomac River, to the west by Prince William County and to the East by Arlington County and City of Falls Church.
Homes that sold in Fairfax in February of 2011, sold for an average price of $429,954.00, an increase of about 6% from this time last year and spent an average of 77 days on the market.
