Sudley, Virginia

Area Profile

19,162 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Sudley, in Prince William County.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity2506th of 3,904 published cities49
Schools1881st of 2,668 published cities35
Housing affordability3254th of 4,223 published cities62
ClimateTop 31% of 4,223 published cities74
Physical resilienceTop 34% of 4,182 published cities71
AccessTop 32% of 4,226 published cities96
Economic stabilityTop 34% of 4,226 published cities68
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.7% and median household income $94,309, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published city profiles.

In the public schools here, 43% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 15.1 students for every teacher.

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

At a glance

Population
19,162
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$94,309
Top 22% nationally
Density
6,953/sq mi
2.8 sq mi of land
Median age
35.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Prince William County
Virginia
Metro area
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
Nearest major airport
IAD
11 mi · Washington Dulles Intl
Median home value
$424,800
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.7% is lower than 74% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 3.0% over the past year, to 252,933 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$10,284$94,309Top 22%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,179$32,026Bottom 44%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate10.2%Bottom 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute37.4 minTop 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher24.3%Top 41%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment252,933Top 26%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-4.2%Bottom 6%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-3.0%Bottom 8%June 2026
Labor force262,663Top 26%June 2026
Labor force participation68.7%Top 22%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$91,930Top 6%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$71,060Top 8%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.4%Top 32%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.7%Bottom 26%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202494k86k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $94,309 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 publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Prince William County, VA, which contains this city.

43% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 56% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.1 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
8
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.1
across all schools here
Math proficiency
42.7%
Bottom 31% in Virginia
Reading proficiency
56.0%
Bottom 30% in Virginia
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Unity Reed HighPrince William County Public Schools2,04215.7
Unity Braxton MiddlePrince William County Public Schools1,05513.437%62%
T. Clay Wood ElementaryPrince William County Public Schools75419.882%84%
George P. Mullen ElementaryPrince William County Public Schools66714.232%49%
C.A. Sinclair ElementaryPrince William County Public Schools63614.839%47%
Sudley ElementaryPrince William County Public Schools62315.641%51%
West Gate ElementaryPrince William County Public Schools48213.822%32%
Suella G. Ellis ElementaryPrince William County Public Schools40314.436%52%

63.6% 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 $2,139 takes 27% 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
27.2%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,139
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$424,800
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.50Top 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate61.6%Bottom 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3385,725Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$104$2,139Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$18,550$424,800Top 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income27.2%Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.7%Bottom 23%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 →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

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 35, 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, 10.8 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index49.02024 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 index35.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing43°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
35
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
49
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

71 / 100
Physical resilience

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

HurricaneModerate
EarthquakeModerate
LandslideModerate
DroughtModerate
Cold waveModerate

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

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. 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.

Prince William County records 3.3 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 7.8 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 10.4 per 100,000 residents in Prince William County.

Homicide
3.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
7.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
10.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
8.2
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 Prince William 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 Sudley rather than Sudley 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 MarshallBWI52 mi10,503 ft
Richmond IntlRIC89 mi9,003 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.

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Other cities in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
WashingtonDistrict of Columbia681,29465vs Sudley
ArlingtonArlington County236,254vs Sudley
AlexandriaAlexandria city156,97661vs Sudley
GermantownMontgomery County90,719vs Sudley
FrederickFrederick County83,39570vs Sudley
WaldorfCharles County82,943vs Sudley
Silver SpringMontgomery County81,462vs Sudley
CentrevilleFairfax County71,706vs Sudley
Dale CityPrince William County71,016vs Sudley
GaithersburgMontgomery County69,82568vs Sudley
BethesdaMontgomery County69,397vs Sudley
RockvilleMontgomery County67,67171vs Sudley

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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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)
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.

ZIP codes in Sudley

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
2010945,444$89,962