Census-designated place · Prince William County, Virginia

Montclair, Virginia

Montclair is a census-designated place in Prince William County, Virginia, part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area. It has 22,387 residents. Montclair, Virginia has a quality-of-life score of 88 out of 100 (very high), ranking #1,838 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Virginia it ranks #121 of 375 cities and towns. It ranks best on injury deaths (low), income inequality (Gini index) (low) and distance to an Amtrak station (low). It ranks worst on average commute time (high), drought exposure (high) and mammography screening (low).

88Very high

Quality-of-life score: #1,838 of 15,651 cities and towns
Virginia: #121 of 375 in VA
Population: 22,387 (2020-2024)
Land area: 6 mi²
Density: 3,723.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 5152658

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety64#5,667/15,637
Economy96#607/15,631
Housing58#6,357/14,977
Health93#1,122/15,609
Healthcare46#8,382/15,650
Environment89#1,623/15,453
Education94#979/15,649
Infrastructure85#2,425/15,650
Community74#4,010/15,651
Leisure & amenities27#11,358/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Montclair, Virginia ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Prince William County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Injury deaths · low46 /100k
97/100Virginia 78 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePrince William County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.343
97/100Virginia 0.472United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Distance to an Amtrak station · low5 mi
96/100Virginia 14 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauPrince William County value
Median household income · high$155,774
96/100Virginia $92,116United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Food environment index · high9.4
96/100Virginia 8.9United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePrince William County value
High school diploma or higher · high95.4%
94/100Virginia 91.6%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003

Weaknesses

Average commute time · high38.2 min
7/100Virginia 27.3 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Drought exposure · high84%
9/100Virginia 70%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAPrince William County value
Mammography screening · low37.0%
11/100Virginia 47.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePrince William County value
Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
14/100Virginia 0.4 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesPrince William County value
Primary care shortage · high16.0
14/100Virginia 6.6United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationPrince William County value
Social associations · low6.6 /10k
16/100Virginia 11.1 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePrince William County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
20,881 (2015-2019) → 22,387 (2020-2024)
+7.2%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Median household incomeImproving
$127,194 (2015-2019) → $155,774 (2020-2024)
+22%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.3× (2015-2019) → 3.7× (2020-2024)
+14%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Public transit commutersWorsening
7.3% (2015-2019) → 4.7% (2020-2024)
−2.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B08301US 5.0% → 3.2%
Child poverty rateWorsening
3.1% (2015-2019) → 5.6% (2020-2024)
+2.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Unemployment rateWorsening
4.2% (2015-2019) → 5.8% (2020-2024)
+1.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Montclair, Virginia improved on 1 of 15 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 12 moved within the margin of error and 1 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Household income+22%$127,194 → $155,774

Declined1

Price / income+0.5×3.3× → 3.7×

All 15 measures

Change of every measure of Montclair, Virginia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	40.9 min2015-2019	38.2 min2020-2024	−2.8 min	Within the margin of error	77%
Bachelor's degree or higher	57.3%2015-2019	56.0%2020-2024	−1.3 points	Within the margin of error	20%
Broadband subscriptions	97.2%2015-2019	98.2%2020-2024	+1 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Child poverty rate	3.1%2015-2019	5.6%2020-2024	+2.5 points	Within the margin of error	28%
Effective property tax rate	1.01%2015-2019	0.84%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Little change	51%
High school diploma or higher	96.0%2015-2019	95.4%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Home price to income ratio	3.3×2015-2019	3.7×2020-2024	+0.5×	Declined	51%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3412015-2019	0.3432020-2024	+0.003	Within the margin of error	48%
Median household income	$127,1942015-2019	$155,7742020-2024	+22%	Improved	38%
Poverty rate	2.7%2015-2019	3.8%2020-2024	+1.1 points	Within the margin of error	33%
Public transit commuters	7.3%2015-2019	4.7%2020-2024	−2.7 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Rent as share of income	28.1%2015-2019	27.7%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	59%
Rent-burdened households	47.3%2015-2019	46.5%2020-2024	−0.8 points	Within the margin of error	59%
Unemployment rate	4.2%2015-2019	5.8%2020-2024	+1.6 points	Within the margin of error	20%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	5.3%2015-2019	4.6%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	55%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Montclair, Virginia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Montclair, Virginia in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Montclair, Virginia itself moved +0 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

22,387 residents (±1,378)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79
60–69

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

7,263 households (±398)

Montclair, Virginia
Virginia share

Under $25k3.4%†245
$25k–50k5.6%†409
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

7,263 households (±398)

Montclair, Virginia
Virginia share

Own89%6,439
Rent11%824

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

10,571 workers (±814)

Montclair, Virginia
Virginia share

Drive alone60%6,357
Carpool7.0%†741
Public transit4.7%†495

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Prince William County, the county holding most of Montclair's residents.

Prince William County has 9,286 employer establishments, 189 for every 10,000 residents (0.76× the US rate of 248; 0.78× Virginia's), with 120,091 paid employees at an average annual pay of $55,828. The Census Bureau also counts 53,892 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 9,286; 53,892 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 189; US 248 · Virginia 241
Paid employees: 120,091
Average annual pay: $55,828; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Prince William County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	1,011	20.6	1.33×More than typical	13,872	$67,668	4,871
Ambulatory health care services	772	15.7	0.75×Fewer than typical	8,361	$64,890	2,221
Restaurants and other eating places	720	14.7	0.80×Fewer than typical	14,193	$22,223	358
Lessors of real estate	425	8.6	0.70×Fewer than typical	1,230	$64,323	3,310
Computer systems design and related services	413	8.4	1.94×More than typical	3,474	$111,947	748
Services to buildings and dwellings	397	8.1	1.20×About typical	2,894	$42,448	3,285
Construction of buildings	384	7.8	1.03×About typical	1,929	$67,389	2,182
Management, scientific and technical consulting	372	7.6	1.13×About typical	4,262	$85,605	2,006
Limited-service restaurants	369	7.5	0.94×About typical	7,096	$20,007	111
Building equipment contractors	297	6	1.00×About typical	4,254	$72,609	994
Building finishing contractors	292	5.9	1.56×More than typical	2,892	$46,066	2,041
Full-service restaurants	279	5.7	0.74×Fewer than typical	5,960	$25,427	177

Rank places for an industry Open Prince William County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 491,396 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $27.9M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Montclair, Virginia: $1,245 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $27.9M; +89% vs FY2025
Per resident: $1,245; US $1,994
Sole-source: 56%; US 30%
Single offer: 13%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Department of Veterans Affairs$16.5M59%
U.S. Customs and Border Protection$2.8M10.0%
Defense Health Agency$2.7M9.7%
Office of Procurement Operations$2.1M7.6%
Internal Revenue Service$1.4M5.1%
Federal Acquisition Service$389.8K1.4%
Departmental Offices$324.4K1.2%
Defense Threat Reduction Agency$275.1K1.0%

Top recipients

SIGNATURE CHOICE II, LLC$14.4M52%
ADVANCED MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES GROUP, INC.$4.6M17%
TECHANAX LLC$3.1M11%
ADVENTUREONE LLC$2.3M8.2%
CREST SECURITY ASSURANCE LLC$694.5K2.5%

Spending by fiscal year

3.5MFY2017
9.8MFY2018
21.5MFY2019
15.4MFY2020
25.4MFY2021
32MFY2022
37.1MFY2023
18M

Top industries (NAICS)

Insurance agencies, brokerages, and related activities · 5242$14.4M52%
Computer systems design and related services · 5415$5.4M19%
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services · 5416$4.3M16%
Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413$2.9M11%
Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing · 3341$304.4K1.1%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Montclair, Virginia, so they do not add up across cities.

Montclair, Virginia's figures are part of those of Prince William County, VA ($2.3B in FY2026), never added to them: 1.2% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Montclair is mostly in Prince William County.

See federal money in Prince William County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Montclair, Virginia is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Prince William County84100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV86

Other cities and towns in Prince William County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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Scores by category

Strengths · Weaknesses

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Trends