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Stafford County
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county in Virginia, United States
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The entry is geolocated on the map in VA.
It is catalogued under topics including 1664 establishments in the Colony of Virginia, Counties and county equivalents of the Washington metropolitan area and Northern Virginia counties.
Its subject is documented across 47 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Virginia
- Named after
- Staffordshire, England
- Seat
- Stafford
- Largest community
- Aquia Harbor
- Total
- 280 sq mi (730 km )
- Land
- 269 sq mi (700 km )
- Water
- 11 sq mi (28 km ) 3.9%
- Estimate 2025
- 170,803
- Density
- 583/sq mi (225/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Zip codes
- 22405, 22406, 22134, 22554, 22556
- Congressional district
- 7th
- Website
- staffordcountyva .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Staffordshire
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Virginia
- Contains
- Stafford
- Capital
- Stafford
- Population
- 156927
- Area
- 725
- Shares border with
- Fredericksburg
- Official website
- staffordcountyva.gov
- Image
- Stafford VA courthouse.JPG
- Households
- 48160
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- Commons category
- Stafford County, Virginia
- topic's main category
- Category:Stafford County, Virginia
- inception
- 1664-00-00
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Stafford County, Virginia
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Stafford County, Virginia
- different from
- Stafford County
- water as percent of area
- 3.9
- native label
- Stafford County
- per capita income
- 43401
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Encyclopedic overview
Stafford County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is approximately 40 miles (64 km) south of Washington, D.C. It is part of the Northern Virginia region, and the D.C area. It is one of the fastest-growing and highest-income counties in America. As of the 2020 United States census, the population sits at 156,927. Its county seat is Stafford.
Located across the Rappahannock River from the City of Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County, Stafford County is part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 2006, and again in 2009, Stafford was ranked by Forbes magazine as the 11th highest-income county in the United States. According to a Census Bureau report released in 2019, Stafford County is currently the sixth highest-income county in America.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stafford County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.