
Virginia · FIPS 51610
Falls Church city ZIP codes — Falls Church city, Virginia
Quick answer
Falls Church city is home to 14,593 residents with a median household income of $154,734 and a median home value of $1,005,400. 50.2% of households own their home and 3.6% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Falls Church city ZIP code? 1 ZIP code areas fall inside Falls Church city, Virginia, listed in full below.
- Population
- 14,593Falls Church city residents
- Median household income
- $154,734Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $1,005,400Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $2,205Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 39.4 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 50.2%Owner-occupied households
Falls Church city, VA in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Falls Church city is a mid-size town in Virginia, with 14,593 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 39.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.
Households in Falls Church city earn a median of $154,734 a year, 97% above the national figure of $78,538. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 3.6% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Falls Church city is valued at $1,005,400, 231.4% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $2,205 a month, 56.8% above the national figure, or roughly $26,460 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.1% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 6.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is out of reach on local earnings alone and the ownership market leans on outside income, equity or dual high earners. 50.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.
Home values sit at 6.5× median household income, far past the 3.9× national mark, so ownership costs here are set by something other than local wages — second homes, retirees with equity, or commuters earning elsewhere.
All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.
ZIP codes in Falls Church city
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Falls Church city.
How to read this page
What these estimates cover.
Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Cities and towns in Virginia
Largest Census places in Virginia by population.
- Virginia Beach city 457,066
- Chesapeake city 251,153
- Arlington CDP 235,463
- Norfolk city 235,037
- Richmond city 227,595
- Newport News city 184,774
- Alexandria city 156,788
- Hampton city 137,334
- Roanoke city 98,677
- Portsmouth city 97,299
- Suffolk city 96,638
- Lynchburg city 79,255
Nearby counties
Other counties in Virginia.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Falls Church city?
- Falls Church city has 14,593 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Falls Church city?
- Median household income in Falls Church city is $154,734 a year, 97% above the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Falls Church city?
- Median gross rent is $2,205 a month and the median home value is $1,005,400, so rent absorbs about 17.1% of median household income.
- Is Falls Church city affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 6.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Falls Church city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17.1% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Falls Church city data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.