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In a Statistical Bake-Off, Fairfax Trumps Montgomery County

  • January 27th 2010

by Mark Wellborn

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In a Statistical Bake-Off, Fairfax Trumps Montgomery County: Figure 1
Fairfax County

In the continuing battle for who is DC’s better neighbor — Fairfax County or Montgomery County — the Virginia county just hopped into the lead.

The Washington Post reported today on a comprehensive study of Fairfax County that was compiled by two Montgomery County government staffers over a period of several months last year. The results show that residents of Fairfax County are richer, taxed less, and have a better job economy and higher property values than their Montgomery County counterparts.

The Post alluded to the report as something of wake-up call for the Maryland county’s future:

Montgomery officials described the effort as a friendly attempt to learn how the Washington region’s biggest county manages its affairs. But the burb-on-burb statistical bake-off also represents something of a proxy in the struggle among Montgomery officials over the county’s future growth.

Here are how the two counties lined up against one another in some key categories of the “burb-on-burb statistical bake-off.”

  Montgomery County Fairfax County
Median Income $94,000 $107,000
Median Housing Value $489,400 $523,600
Unemployment Rate 5.2% 4.7%
Median Housing Sales Price $395,000 $371,000
Foreclosure Rate 2.4% 3.3%
Personal Income Tax From 5.2 to 9.45% From 2 to 5.75%

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