Us Against Them
By
Sonia Harmon
Published Saturday, November 01, 2008
| Northern Virginia* | DC and Maryland suburbs^ | Rest of Virginia |
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| Population | 2.3 million | 3.1 million | 5.5 million | | Land area | 2,200 square miles | 1,700 square miles | 37,300 square miles | | Jurisdictions | 11 | 5 | 123 | | Jurisdictions with average household income above $90,000 | 9 | 3 | 1 | | “Upper Crust” households+ | 60,000 | 63,000 | 22,000 | | Per-capita income | $55,60051 percent more than national average | $52,10042 percent more than national average | $33,3008 percent less than national average | | Population below poverty level | 113,000 | 242,000 | 616,000 | | State lottery sales | $232 million | $924 million | $1.1 billion | | Starbucks | 106 | 139 | 96 | | Walmarts | 12 | 10 | 77 | | Borders | 16 | 17 | 5 | | Cracker Barrel restaurants | 2 | 0 | 25 | | Fortune 500 companies | 8 | 7 | 11 | | Megachurches | 11 | 31 | 20 | | Percentage of population above age 24 with college degree | 45 | 36 | 20 | | Percentage of residents born outside United States | 20 | 16 | 3 | | Percentage of whites | 74 | 54 | 73 | | Percentage of Hispanics | 14 | 10 | 4 | | Percentage of African-Americans | 12 | 37 | 23 | | Percentage of Asians | 11 | 7 | 2 |
*Includes Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, and Stafford counties as well as the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas, and Manassas Park. ^Includes DC and Montgomery, Prince George’s, Howard, and Anne Arundel counties. +Defined by Nielsen Claritas marketers Key sources: Hartford Institute for Religion Research; Nielsen Claritas; US Census; Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. Figures are the latest available.
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Comments
There’s a solution to the college issue. Other states--Ohio and Michigan for example--have agreements where each state treats the other’s residents as in-state for tuition purposes.
Maryland has UMCP just across the river from you guys, which is probably better than U-VA in most fields. But, other than maybe UMBC, we really don’t have any other reasonably good state schools. Perhaps Maryland and Northern Virginia could make such an agreement; it seems like it would be mutually beneficial.
--Daniel
Posted by: Daniel, Jan 04, 2009 09:42:43 AM
here’s my big problem with the new state idea:
The best collegs in Virginia (Virginia Tech, UVA, JMU, CNU, Longwood, etc) would become out of state schools for everybody in Northern Virginia. GMU and Nova are decent, but can’t take all of the students from the area. Out of state colleges are massively expensive when compared with in sate schools. Don’t screw college students like me and future college students like my sister; let’s stay united Virginia.
Stephen
Posted by: Stephen Dolenc, Nov 25, 2008 07:44:24 PM
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