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A town of 4,606.
Loch Lomond is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades B− overall, 168th of 249 graded towns in Virginia, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $114K. Expect to pay for it: the typical home is worth about $442K, 3.5 years of the Washington metro’s $127K median household income. 8.6% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Loch Lomond, below both Virginia’s towns (44%) and U.S. towns (29%). On hazard risk, just 6 of Virginia’s 372 towns do worse. Loch Lomond is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns.
Where Loch Lomond beats most towns.
Where Loch Lomond’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 Loch Lomond is from typical.
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The archive holds 1 old photo or paper going back to 2016 and 7 maps from 1915 on.
Explore the history →Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Loch Lomond. Close and well known come first.
Big draw25 mi National park siteWhite House311K visitors a year
Big draw25 mi National MemorialWashington Monument204K visitors a year
Big draw23 mi LandmarkArlington National Cemetery
Big draw24 mi LandmarkUnited States Triumphal Arch
Big draw26 mi MuseumSmithsonian Institution30.0M visitors a year
9 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
Loch Lomond is unincorporated, so Prince William 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 Loch Lomond.
Loch Lomond sends most of its workers to Manassas and beyond, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Virginia (mostly inland flooding) and trails even towns with similar incomes on health.
Its public schools are run by the Prince William County Public Schools. One of its 2 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loch Lomond ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 480 | C+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within VA on state tests and graduation
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 100% of Virginia towns, with expected losses of about $338 per resident a year; that rating is what its D for hazard risk is built on.
The FEMA risk score in Loch Lomond is 82 of 100. Since 1978, 44 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Loch Lomond.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Loch Lomond has 224 jobs for its 1,698 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave Loch Lomond for work: only 1% work in town. Loch Lomond’s average trip to work is 32 minutes. The top destinations are Manassas (6%), Chantilly (4%) and Washington (4%).
| Loch Lomond | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 32 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $114,000 | $101,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 4.2% | 7.7% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.6% | 5% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Loch Lomond has chilly winters and warm summers. 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
Against the 6,636 U.S. towns with household incomes like Loch Lomond’s, it is less healthy than 86%, so it trails even them.
21% of Loch Lomond adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance. Loch Lomond beats the Virginia average on 5 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 11. 76% of Loch Lomond adults had a checkup this year.
| Loch Lomond | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 8.4% | 8.1% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 34% | 33% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 12% | 14% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 76% | 79% | 79% |
| What stands out | Loch Lomond | VA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 5.6% | 7.7% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 20.9% | 26.2% |
| More uninsured adults | 20.7% | 8.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
82% of households own their home in Loch Lomond.
| Loch Lomond | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $2,161 a month | $1,760 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 82% | 68% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
5 within 15 miles of the center of Loch Lomond
About 4 of every 100 Loch Lomond residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across Virginia.
Census-designated place in Virginia, United States
Loch Lomond is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince William County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Loch Lomond had a population of 4,050. It is named after a loch in northern Scotland, Loch Lomond.
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5 towns share a border with Loch Lomond.
| Town | VA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loch Lomond | #168 | B− | C | — | B | B− |
| Sudley | #173 | B− | C | — | B | B− |
| Yorkshire | #146 | B | C+ | — | B | B− |
| Manassas | #188 | C+ | C+ | C | C− | B |
| Manassas Park | #189 | C+ | C | B+ | C− | C+ |
| Bull Run | #123 | B+ | C− | — | B+ | A+ |
Loch Lomond, Sudley, Yorkshire and Bull Run report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Loch Lomond with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Loch Lomond grades B− overall, better than 53% of U.S. towns and #168 of 249 in Virginia. It grades B− for health and B for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
The typical home is worth about $442,000, 7% 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.
