Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
71,706 people live in this city in Virginia.
Centreville’s strongest is health (A) — it is healthier than 94% of U.S. towns. The city’s overall grade is A−, better than 84% of U.S. towns. The ranking puts it 85th of 249 in Virginia. Incomes are a strength too: the median household earns $140K. What counts against it is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $615K, 4.9 years of the Washington metro’s $127K median household income. Just over a tenth of the land here is conserved, above both the Virginia town median (4.6%) and the median of U.S. towns (4.3%). The biggest park or preserve is Ellanor C. Lawrence Park, at 225 acres.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · home values, Zillow · USGS PAD-US · OpenStreetMap.
Where Centreville beats most towns.
Where Centreville’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Virginia), ordered by how far Centreville is from typical.
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Census counts: 7,473 in 1980, 73,518 in 2020. The archive holds 24 old photos and papers going back to 1860 and 7 maps from 1915 on.
Explore the history →Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Centreville. Close and well known come first.
Big draw22 mi National park siteWhite House311K visitors a year
Big draw22 mi National MemorialWashington Monument204K visitors a year
Big draw20 mi LandmarkArlington National Cemetery
Big draw21 mi LandmarkUnited States Triumphal Arch
Big draw22 mi MuseumSmithsonian Institution30.0M visitors a year
5 mi MuseumSteven F. Udvar-Hazy Center1.6M visitors a yearWhite House: This image or media was taken or created by Matt H. Wade. To see his entire port, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Washington Monument: Oren Rozen, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Arlington National Cemetery: Protoant, Public domain · United States Triumphal Arch: Hstoops, CC0 · Smithsonian Institution: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer, Public domain · Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0
Centreville is unincorporated, so Fairfax County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 30, 2026.
Ordered by what stands out in Centreville.
Centreville has less tooth loss than most of Virginia and sends most of its workers to Springfield and beyond, but it has property taxes about twice the Virginia norm.
Its widest gap with Virginia is tooth loss: 6.3% of those 65+ have lost all their teeth, against 11.1% statewide.
One in ten adults report frequent physical distress in Centreville. The town beats the Virginia average on 21 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. In Centreville, 13% of adults report frequent mental distress, and 27% have high blood pressure.
| Centreville | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 34% | 35% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 16% | 17% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 33% | 35% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 12% | 14% |
| What stands out | Centreville | VA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 6.3% | 11.1% |
| Fewer adults with COPD | 3.7% | 6.2% |
| Fewer adults treating high blood pressure | 73.1% | 76.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Public schools: the Fairfax County Public Schools. Three of its 14 schools are shown below, with the reason for each. 6 public schools serve Centreville, with 4,400 students in all.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Mill ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 874 | B+ |
| Mountain View HighLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 145 | C− |
| Powell ElementaryTop results in townGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 872 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within VA on state tests and graduation
Count the trails in 15 parks and preserves and they come to 14 miles. Centreville’s concentration of trails stands at 1.2 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Little Rocky Run Stream Valley Park | 1.8 mi | 126 |
| 2. Ellanor C. Lawrence Park | 0.5 mi | 225 |
| 3. Arrowhead Park | 0.4 mi | 35 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The median property tax bill is $6,100, against $2,790 across Virginia, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Centreville’s rent at the middle of the market comes in at $2,299 a month. Zillow values the typical Centreville home at about $615,000, up 0.8% in a year, 49% above the Virginia typical home. On the market here: a median 35 days to sell.
| Centreville | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $2,299 a month | $1,760 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Renters paying 30%+ of income on rent | 52% | 47% | 48% |
| Households that own their home | 73% | 68% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Centreville has 10,462 jobs for its 36,309 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Centreville had 10,462 jobs in 2023, up 1,459 from 2013. The share of workers in Centreville who do their job from home: 22%. Half commute less than 12 miles. Its mean commuting time stands at 28 minutes.
| Centreville | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $140,000 | $101,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 22% | 17% | 11% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 4% | 5% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
July afternoons reach 88°, January nights drop to 26° and about 21 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
In Centreville, the natural-hazard score from FEMA is 45 of 100. The town has had 12 paid flood insurance claims since 1979. FEMA puts 78% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 6% to hurricanes. Federal disaster aid has reached households in Centreville once, in 2003.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
9 within 15 miles of the center of Centreville
About 8 of every 100 Centreville residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Virginia.
Census-designated place in Virginia, United States
Centreville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. It is a suburb of Washington, D.C., the nation's capital. As of the 2020 census, Centreville had a population of 73,518, making it the most-populous community in Fairfax County. Centreville is approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of Washington, D.C.
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4 towns share a border with Centreville.
| Town | VA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centreville | #85 | A− | C− | — | B+ | A |
| Bull Run | #123 | B+ | C− | — | B+ | A+ |
| Chantilly | #77 | A | D | — | B+ | A |
| Union Mill | #50 | A | C | — | B+ | A+ |
| Fair Lakes | #62 | A | D | — | B+ | A+ |
Centreville, Bull Run, Chantilly, Union Mill and Fair Lakes report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Centreville with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Centreville grades A− overall, better than 84% of U.S. towns and #85 of 249 in Virginia. It grades A for health and B+ for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a C−.
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.
