Courtesy of Northern Virginia Health Foundation
Northern Virginia has cemented its status as one of the most prosperous areas of the state in recent years, with residents enjoying increasingly high incomes, high education rates, good job opportunities, and good access to food, housing, transportation, and health care.
That’s in the aggregate. But if you look more closely at individual neighborhoods, a different picture emerges, one of concentrated areas of poverty and poor opportunity alongside others of tremendous wealth and success. That reality persisted — and in some cases even worsened — as Northern Virginia overall experienced continued growth and progress in the years between 2013 and 2021, according to a new report from researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Center for Society and Health and the Northern Virginia Health Foundation.
The report, “Lost Opportunities: The Persistence of Disadvantaged Neighborhoods in Northern Virginia,” compares 2017-2021 census data for Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties and the city of Alexandria to the same data from 2009-2013 to understand how the region — and its “islands of disadvantage” have changed over time.
The research builds on a years-long endeavor to document these neighborhoods and explain why they are struggling amid Northern Virginia’s overall prosperity. An original report used the 2009-2013 census data to identify the region’s “islands of disadvantage.” Subsequent reports showed how ...
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