HutchisonVA
A town of 7,284.
Is Hutchison a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Hutchison grades B+ overall, ranked 124th of 249 in Virginia. Natural-hazard risk is low. What holds it back is price: homes are expensive, about $477K for a typical one and 3.8 times the Washington metro’s $127K median household income. Hutchison’s median rent is $2,388 a month, above both Virginia’s towns ($1,760 a month) and U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). Hutchison is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 96% of U.S. towns. Only 6 of the 253 Virginia towns we compare have a lower share of residents 65 or older than Hutchison.
What makes Hutchison stand out
Where Hutchison beats most towns.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Hutchison Elementary | PK–6 | 970 |
99% of working residents leave Hutchison for work
Where Hutchison’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Hutchison grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Virginia), ordered by how far Hutchison is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
White House and 244 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Hutchison. Close and well known come first.
Big draw21 mi National park siteWhite House311K visitors a year
Big draw21 mi National MemorialWashington Monument204K visitors a year
Big draw20 mi LandmarkArlington National Cemetery
Big draw20 mi LandmarkUnited States Triumphal Arch
Big draw22 mi MuseumSmithsonian Institution30.0M visitors a year
4 mi MuseumSteven F. Udvar-Hazy Center1.6M visitors a yearPhoto credits
White 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
Moving to Hutchison: who provides what
Hutchison 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Hutchison.
Hutchison sends most of its workers to Reston and beyond, owes part of its health edge to its incomes and is mostly renters.
Hutchison faces a very low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 94% of U.S. communities. One flood insurance claim has been paid in Hutchison since 2011.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
On state tests, Hutchison’s schools beat 74% of Virginia districts
Its public schools are run by the Fairfax County Public Schools. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hutchison ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 970 | D− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within VA on state tests and graduation
Most working residents commute out of Hutchison
Hutchison has 349 jobs for its 2,740 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave Hutchison for work: only 1% work in town. 15% of residents live below the poverty line in Hutchison. Jobs based in Hutchison fell to 349 in 2023, 53 fewer than in 2013.
| Hutchison | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 15% | 7.7% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 10% | 18% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.1% | 5% | 8% |
| Median household income | $106,000 | $101,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Younger than Virginia overall
Only 45.4% of households own their home, against 67.3% across Virginia.
People 65 and older are 5% of residents (17% statewide); adults 18 to 34 are 33% of residents (23% statewide). The median age in Hutchison is 29.1 years. 40% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 42% across Virginia.
| Hutchison | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 29.1 years | 38.5 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 28% | 23% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 40% | 44% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
Somewhere between 39% and 61% women
The Census survey reached too few of Hutchison’s residents to say more: its margin here is ±11 points. Across Virginia, 50.6% of residents are women.
| Hutchison | VA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 19.2% | 11.6% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 9.1% | 10.1% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 10.8% | 9.3% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 22% | 13.5% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 11.4% | 13.6% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 14.2% | 12.5% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 7.9% | 12.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 3.9% | 9.9% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 1.5% | 6.8% | 7% |
| No diploma | 24.1% | 8.4% | 10.4% |
| High school | 17.1% | 23.9% | 26% |
| Some college | 7.8% | 17.7% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 11.3% | 7.8% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 25% | 23.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 14.7% | 18.5% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Hutchison
Hutchison has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 26° and about 21 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Hutchison ranks healthier than 62% of the country’s towns
Against the 7,779 U.S. towns with household incomes like Hutchison’s, it is less healthy than 63%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
Hutchison beats the Virginia average on 8 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 15. 72% of Hutchison adults had a checkup this year. Among 253 Virginia towns, just 6 have a higher share of adults 18 to 64 who have no health insurance than Hutchison.
| Hutchison | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 72% | 79% | 79% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 8.4% | 8.1% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 34% | 33% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 12% | 14% |
| What stands out | Hutchison | VA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 3.6% | 7.7% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 16.5% | 26.2% |
| More uninsured adults | 17.6% | 8.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
A home in Hutchison sells for about $675K at the median
The median property tax bill is $4,397, against $2,790 across Virginia, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Hutchison
Colleges nearby
7 within 15 miles of the center of Hutchison
About 7 of every 100 Hutchison residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Virginia.
About Hutchison
Census-designated place in Virginia
Hutchison is a census designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. It is a residential development just north of Virginia State Route 267, located 23 miles west of Washington, D.C. The community is one of the census-designated places newly recognized for the 2020 United States census. As of the 2020 census, the population of Hutchison is 6,231.
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- Area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Elevation
- 364 ft
Hutchison’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Hutchison.
Hutchison and McNair report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Hutchison with a neighbor →
Questions about Hutchison
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Hutchison, VA a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Hutchison grades B+ overall, better than 72% of U.S. towns and #124 of 249 in Virginia. It grades B for health and B+ for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Hutchison, VA expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $477,000, 16% above the Virginia typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.