Loudoun County, Virginia

County ranked by announced AI data-center load

Undisclosed Announced AI load

Campuses

Lead operator

AWS

Resi rate Δ (Dominion Energy Virginia)

+7.2%

Home price Δ (3y)

+3.8%

Property tax Δ (3y)

+6.4%

Population (2024 ACS)

433K

Median HH income (2024 ACS)

$181,765

Key takeaways

Loudoun County's median household income is $178,707, the highest of any county in the United States as of the 2023 ACS. 64.0% of residents over 25 hold a bachelor's degree, the highest concentration of college-educated workers in this batch.Source: Census ACS 2023 B19013, B15003 (FIPS 51107) + sources[0] (Wikipedia: Loudoun County, Virginia)
Data Center Alley in Ashburn now holds more than 25 million square feet of operational data centers across 60-plus campuses. Estimates of how much daily global web traffic transits the corridor range from 22% to 70%, a contested but unrivaled concentration.Source: sources[0] (Wikipedia: Loudoun County, Virginia and Data Center Alley)
Dominion Energy Virginia residential rates rose 7.2% from 2021 to 2023 and Loudoun home prices rose only 3.8% over three years against a $701,000 median home value, the most muted home-price move in this batch. The 6.4% property tax delta is similarly restrained, in line with the county's existing high revenue base.Source: data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (Virginia Electric & Power Co, VA) + data/cache/realestate_yoy.csv + data/cache/property_tax_yoy.csv (FIPS 51107)
Loudoun's 427,082 residents already share their grid with AWS us-east-1, the region that hosts an estimated 70% of all AWS IP addresses. The single county is the canonical example of what a 25 million square-foot data-center cluster does to a wealthy bedroom community.Source: Census ACS 2023 B01003 + sources[0] (Wikipedia: Data Center Alley)

Loudoun is 21.0% Asian, 14.2% Hispanic, and 7.7% Black against a 55.4% white share, the largest Asian population share of any county in this batch. Northern Virginia's Indian and Korean communities concentrate inside this single Dominion rate jurisdiction.Source: Census ACS 2023 B02001, B03003 (FIPS 51107)
Only 4.0% of Loudoun residents live below the poverty line, the lowest poverty rate in this batch. Yet median gross rent is $2,317 per month, the highest rent in this batch and roughly three times Mecklenburg's $804.Source: Census ACS 2023 B17001, B25064 (FIPS 51107)
96.7% of Loudoun households have a home broadband subscription, the highest in this batch but only 4 points above Utah County's 92.0%. Data Center Alley does not deliver a corresponding lead in household connectivity over wealthy non-data-center counties.Source: Census ACS 2023 B28002 (FIPS 51107)
Manufacturing employs only 4.4% of the Loudoun workforce, the smallest manufacturing share of any Virginia county in this batch. Unemployment is 3.2% and 88.6% of residents lived in the same house a year ago, a stable knowledge-economy base anchoring the data-center build.Source: Census ACS 2023 C24050, B23025, B07001 (FIPS 51107)