Prince William County, Virginia

County ranked by announced AI data-center load

7.0 GW Announced AI load

Campuses

Lead operator

QTS

Resi rate Δ (Dominion Energy Virginia)

+7.2%

Home price Δ (3y)

+7.2%

Property tax Δ (3y)

+7.2%

Population (2024 ACS)

489K

Median HH income (2024 ACS)

$131,402

Key takeaways

Prince William County has 484,625 residents and is the second-largest county in Virginia. The 502,966 estimate for 2025 puts it on the cusp of overtaking Fairfax as the Northern Virginia data-center population center.Source: Census ACS 2023 B01003 (Prince William County, VA) + sources[0] (Wikipedia: Prince William County, Virginia)
Median household income is $128,873 and 44.5% of residents over 25 hold a bachelor's degree, the third-highest in this batch. The county is the affordable spillover from Loudoun for federal-contractor families priced out of Ashburn.Source: Census ACS 2023 B19013, B15003 (FIPS 51153)
Dominion Energy Virginia residential rates rose 7.2% from 2021 to 2023, the same delta every Dominion-served county faces. Home prices rose 7.2% and property tax assessments rose 7.2% over the same window, an exact coincidence that suggests a homeowner whose income tracks Dominion exactly is treading water.Source: data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (Virginia Electric & Power Co, VA) + data/cache/realestate_yoy.csv + data/cache/property_tax_yoy.csv (FIPS 51153)
The AWS Manassas campus sits in the corridor that became the focus of the Prince William Digital Gateway rezoning fight, the largest data-center land-use battle in the state. Acreage estimates for the full Gateway parcel run into the thousands, dwarfing the operational AWS footprint already on the grid.Source: data/sites/data_centers.csv (Manassas, AWS) + sources[0] (Wikipedia: Prince William County, Virginia)

Prince William is 25.7% Hispanic, 20.5% Black, and 9.8% Asian against a 46.6% white share, the only Virginia county in this batch where no racial or ethnic group holds an outright majority. The Hispanic share is the largest of any Virginia county here.Source: Census ACS 2023 B02001, B03003 (FIPS 51153)
11.7% of Prince William adults are veterans, the second-highest veteran share in this batch behind Stafford's 17.5%. Manassas's proximity to Quantico and the Pentagon anchors a security-cleared workforce that the AWS campus inherits.Source: Census ACS 2023 B21001 (FIPS 51153)
Median gross rent in Prince William County is $2,002 per month, $315 below Loudoun's $2,317 and $77 above Stafford's $1,925. The county is the rent spillover between the Ashburn ceiling and the federal-pay floor.Source: Census ACS 2023 B25064 (FIPS 51153)
Only 6.1% of Prince William residents live below the poverty line and 96.2% of households have a home broadband subscription. The Digital Gateway rezoning fight is being waged by homeowners who already have everything the data centers offer.Source: Census ACS 2023 B17001, B28002 (FIPS 51153)