Kingstowne, Virginia Explained

Kingstowne, Virginia
Settlement Type:Census-designated place
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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.

Geography

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Kingstowne CDP, Virginia . 2022-11-20 . www.census.gov . en.
  2. Web site: Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Kingstowne CDP, Virginia . October 11, 2016 . U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder.