Kingstowne, Virginia | |
Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
Pushpin Map: | USA Virginia Northern#USA Virginia#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Kingstowne |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Virginia |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Fairfax |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Km2: | 7.5 |
Area Land Km2: | 7.4 |
Area Water Km2: | 0.1 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 16825 |
Population Density Km2: | 2273.6 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 200 |
Coordinates: | 38.7769°N -77.1364°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 22315 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 51-42746 |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 2584862 |
Kingstowne is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. It is a planned community amid the Washington, D.C. suburbs of Springfield, Alexandria, and Franconia, Virginia, and is centered on the intersection of South Van Dorn Street and Kingstowne Boulevard. The population as of the 2020 census was 16,825.[1]
Kingstowne has a town center containing office and retail businesses. The entire community comprises numerous subdivisions containing apartments, condominiums, single-family homes, and townhomes. It began construction in the 1980s through the Halle Companies and is still expanding today in the town center with commercial and office space and in the subdivisions with more single-family homes. Kingstowne has its own ZIP code, 22315, a substation of the Alexandria U.S. Post Office.
The Kingstowne CDP is in southeastern Fairfax County, bordered to the north and west by Franconia, to the northeast by Rose Hill, to the southeast by Hayfield, to the south by Fort Belvoir, and for a short distance at its southwestern end by Newington. Downtown Washington, D.C., is to the northeast.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Kingstowne CDP has a total area of 7.5sqkm, of which 7.4sqkm is land and 0.1sqkm, or 1.49%, is water.[2]