Prince William County had reason to crow recently when 2010 Census data showed that, for the first time, its median household income topped that of white-collar enclave Montgomery County, $93,000 to $89,000. For a jurisdiction usually described, sometimes with a whiff of condescension, as “affordable,” that statistic had to be sweet. But that doesn’t mean that “affordable” no longer applies to Prince William — or that the county doesn’t proudly embrace the adjective.
Ashley Leigh, an agent with Linton Hall, Realtors®, characterizes the county as a “value market” in which “buyers get more house for the dollar.” For example, the median sales price in Montgomery in August was $532,992; in Prince William, it was about half that, $277,500. In the neighboring Northern Virginia jurisdictions of Loudoun and Fairfax counties, the median sales figures were also substantially higher than in Prince William, $385,000 and $420,000, respectively. According to Solomon, property taxes on average are 31 percent lower in his county than in other Northern Virginia jurisdictions.
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