Fairfax County Zoning Density

I looked into housing price data in Fairfax County by low, medium and high density. I also look into housing construction and housing stock by density. The county tends to suffer from a lack of medium zoning. This is referred to by urbanists as the “missing middle” and consists of multifamily duplexes, cottage courts and… Continue reading Fairfax County Zoning Density

Median Monthly Home Prices, Fairfax County, VA

A picture is worth a thousand words: the median monthly home price is just now starting to brush against highs set in the summer of 2005 in inflation-adjusted terms. On a price per square foot basis the froth of the mid-2000s hasn’t yet been reached: This may be because houses are getting bigger:

Fairfax County Tax Assessments

Fairfax County’s Open Data GIS system makes several large datasets covering parcels within the county available to the public. The datasets must be combined using statistical software before they can be analyzed. For this project the relevant data are included in two datasets: Legal data: https://data-fairfaxcountygis.opendata.arcgis.com/maps/tax-administrations-real-estate-legal-data/about Assessed Values: https://data-fairfaxcountygis.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/Fairfaxcountygis::tax-administrations-real-estate-assessed-values/ These datasets are imported with irrelevant columns being… Continue reading Fairfax County Tax Assessments