Photo: La Citta Vita · CC BY-SA 2.0Household incomes put Loudoun Valley Estates near the very top of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 4.0% of residents, where Virginia as a whole has 9.9%. Measured by household income, Loudoun Valley Estates is among the highest-earning towns in the country. The two grades for Loudoun Valley Estates are A+ for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Loudoun Valley Estates in brief
A lot of Loudoun Valley Estates works from home
40% of Loudoun Valley Estates workers work from home, against 18% across Virginia. Time on the road ↓
Most jobs here, and most residents’ jobs, pay over $40,000
80% of Loudoun Valley Estates’ working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, the top earnings band in the Census data, and so do 76% of the jobs based in Loudoun Valley Estates. The jobs ↓
Loudoun Valley Estates workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 35 minutes each way, against 27 across Virginia. Over a year that’s about 268 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Loudoun Valley Estates empties out on a workday
About 6,000 people are in Loudoun Valley Estates on a workday afternoon, 42% fewer than the 10,000 who live here: 6,000 head out to work and 1,700 come in. Day and night ↓
No single place dominates Loudoun Valley Estates’ commute
The biggest draw, Reston, gets only 8% of working residents, and 50% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Loudoun Valley Estates residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Where Loudoun Valley Estates’ Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Loudoun Valley Estates is better than 98% of U.S. towns, #22 of 253 in Virginia. Household income is its strongest input ($224,704, U.S. $80,734); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (2.2%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Loudoun Valley Estates could be anywhere from A to A+.
How long Loudoun Valley Estates spends getting to work: about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Loudoun Valley Estates workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,702 commuters (the 40% who work from home are left out). Across Virginia: 83% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
1,894 jobs are based in Loudoun Valley Estates.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Loudoun Valley Estates, 2014 → 2024: 1,769 → 1,894. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Loudoun Valley Estates’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Loudoun Valley Estates
On a workday 6,013 residents head out to work, 159 work right here, and 1,735 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,000 people are in Loudoun Valley Estates on a workday afternoon, 42% fewer than live here.
0.31 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
8% of working residents work in Reston
Where Loudoun Valley Estates clocks in
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where in the region Loudoun Valley Estates works
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Good to walk, short on transit: Loudoun Valley Estates
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Loudoun Valley Estates is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns, #107 of 253 in Virginia. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Virginia, on an EPA index of 7.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 6,206 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Loudoun Valley Estates households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Loudoun Valley Estates’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 7,000 to 14,000, Loudoun Valley Estates ranks 65th of 2,878 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
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| 6 | Difficult Run VA | 9,938 | $250K | 1.4% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
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| 14 | Belmont VA | 9,729 | $243K | 2.1% | 1.1% | 2% | A+ |
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| 19 | Long Branch VA | 7,034 | $185K | 1.6% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
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| 63 | Upper Uwchlan Township PA | 13,681 | $191K | 1.6% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| 64 | Cherry Creek CO | 10,721 | $154K | 5.0% | 1.8% | 1% | A+ |
| 65 | Loudoun Valley Estates VA | 10,271 | $225K | 4.0% | 2.2% | 3% | A+ |
| 66 | Hillsdale NJ | 10,214 | $187K | 2.2% | 3.4% | 5% | A+ |
| 67 | Blue Ash OH | 13,707 | $115K | 4.0% | 1.2% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,878 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Loudoun Valley Estates, the top three, the last and three more from Virginia.
Loudoun Valley Estates and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Loudoun Valley Estates workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loudoun Valley Estates | – | A+ | A− | 35 min | $224,704 |
| Brambleton | under 3% | A+ | A | 37 min | $238,018 |
| Moorefield | under 3% | A+ | A− | 33 min | $205,257 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Loudoun Valley Estates’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Loudoun Valley Estates: questions
What is the median household income in Loudoun Valley Estates?
$224,704 (±$29,140) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Loudoun Valley Estates?
4.0%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Loudoun Valley Estates?
35 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 40% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Loudoun Valley Estates work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Reston (8%, 9 mi), Arlington (8%, 23 mi), Tysons (7%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Loudoun Valley Estates walkable?
Loudoun Valley Estates is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Loudoun Valley Estates without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Loudoun Valley Estates, from the people who make the trip.
More of Loudoun Valley Estates
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.