20175Leesburg, Virginia

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 20175.

70out of 100
Area Score
Top 18% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 31% of 6,210 published ZIP areas64
SchoolsTop 32% of 4,422 published ZIP areas66
Growth4849th of 5,428 published ZIP areas24
Housing affordabilityTop 45% of 6,685 published ZIP areas84
ClimateTop 33% of 6,789 published ZIP areas74
Physical resilienceTop 10% of 6,709 published ZIP areas90
AccessTop 34% of 6,791 published ZIP areas96
Economic stabilityTop 2% of 6,742 published ZIP areas88
The quick read

Residential permitting has slowed: 50 units authorized over the past twelve months, 75% below the prior year.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published ZIP profiles, placing 20175 in the top 10% for physical resilience.

A major airport is 11 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
34,733
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$174,854
Top 2% nationally
Density
589/sq mi
59.0 sq mi of land
Median age
38.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Leesburg
Virginia
Metro area
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
Nearest major airport
IAD
11 mi · Washington Dulles Intl
Median home value
$780,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.3% is lower than 91% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 3.0% over the past year, to 28,391 employed residents.

64% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 95% of measured US ZIP areas.

Household income is higher than at least 98% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$12,431$174,854Top 2%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,112$79,083Top 4%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate4.3%Bottom 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute29.1 minTop 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher64.4%Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment28,391Bottom 30%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-4.5%Bottom 5%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-3.0%Bottom 10%June 2026
Labor force29,365Bottom 29%June 2026
Labor force participation74.7%Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$91,930Top 5%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$71,060Top 6%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.4%Top 36%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.3%Bottom 9%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024175k149k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $174,854 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
General and Operations Managers112,530$156,460
Business Operations Specialists, All Other76,600$104,770
Software Developers69,060$154,930
Retail Salespersons66,920$36,610
Management Analysts62,360$126,830
Fast Food and Counter Workers60,560$34,600

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Leesburg, VA, the city containing this ZIP code.

60% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 68% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 11.6 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
12
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
11.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
59.6%
Top 39% in Virginia
Reading proficiency
67.8%
Top 43% in Virginia
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Heritage HighLoudoun County Public Schools1,47510.9
Loudoun County HighLoudoun County Public Schools1,33411.9
J. Lupton Simpson MiddleLoudoun County Public Schools87412.162%67%
Catoctin ElementaryLoudoun County Public Schools60112.359%68%
Cool Spring ElementaryLoudoun County Public Schools59111.265%75%
Frederick Douglass ElementaryLoudoun County Public Schools58111.040%54%
Evergreen Mill ElementaryLoudoun County Public Schools56912.658%68%
Sycolin Creek ElementaryLoudoun County Public Schools45211.976%79%
Academies of LoudounLoudoun County Public Schools0
The North Star SchoolLoudoun County Public Schools0
The Loudoun Governor's Career & Technical AcademyLoudoun County Public Schools0
Loudoun Co. Juvenile Detention HomeDepartment of Education State-Operated Educ Prgms0

33.8% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Virginia’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $2,107 takes 14% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.5 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
14.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,107
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$780,600
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.46Top 22%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate74.8%Bottom 40%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±60912,638Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$110$2,107Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$28,071$780,600Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income14.5%Bottom 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.1%Bottom 13%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
24/ 100
Ranks 4849 of 5,428 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

At 1.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
50
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
1.0
Bottom 26% nationally
Year over year
−75%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
28.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Leesburg, VA, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 88°F and January a low of 25°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 43.2 inches, including 21.0 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 43, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station WASHINGTON DC DULLES AP, 11.4 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index61.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation43.2"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall21.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low25°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high88°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index43.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing43°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
43
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
61
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

90 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, earthquake and drought.

HurricaneModerate
EarthquakeModerate
DroughtModerate
Cold waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: heat wave, winter weather, lightning, strong wind, inland flooding, hail, tornado, landslide, wildfire, ice storm, avalanche.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Loudoun County records 1.9 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 6.4 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 3.7 per 100,000 residents in Loudoun County.

Homicide
1.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
6.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
3.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
10.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Loudoun County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 20175 rather than 20175 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 11 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Washington Dulles IntlIAD11 mi11,500 ft
Baltimore/Washington Intl Thurgood MarshallBWI51 mi10,503 ft
Harrisburg IntlMDT90 mi10,001 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

Customize your score

What matters to you?

Choose what you weight most heavily. Nothing is saved to an account — your preferences stay in this browser, and the Area Score never changes.

Area Score
70
Your Score

Select one or more priorities to see how this location scores against them.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

20175 vs Leesburg

How this ZIP area compares with Leesburg as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

20175
Leesburg
Median household income
$174,854
vs
$145,205
Per capita income
$79,083
vs
$61,175
Population density
589/sq mi
vs
3,909/sq mi
Median home value
$780,600
vs
$667,800
Median gross rent
$2,107
vs
$2,105
Homeownership rate
74.8%
vs
68.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher
64.4%
vs
56.7%
Poverty rate
4.3%
vs
6.6%
Median age
38.1
vs
36.1

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.