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April 4, 2018 | Serving Haymarket, Gainesville and Western Prince William County | Vol. 17, No. 14 | www.PrinceWilliamTimes.com | 50¢
Still Growing
Price, location drive more to Prince William
By Jonathan Hunley Times Staff Writer
Prince William’s population is growing and will continue to do so, the county’s demographer said last week. The U.S. Census Bureau recently released its annual population estimates, which saw Prince William grow 1.4 percent from 456,560 people on July 1, 2016, to 463,023 on July 1, 2017. County demographer Brian Engelmann said the county could see a population of 465,000 to 470,000 by 2020.
Prince William recently surpassed Virginia Beach and is now the second-most-populous locality in Virginia, behind Fairfax County, at 1.1 million people, according to the Census Bureau. Virginia Beach, now in third place among the state’s localities, boasts 450,435 residents. Manassas and Manassas Park are growing, too, the former having 41,051 residents, according to the Census Bureau, and the latter with 16,591. But no locality in Virginia – or
America – with at least 10,000 residents grew as fast as nearby Falls Church. It increased by 5.2 percent between 2016 and 2017, adding 715 people to go from 13,868 to 14,583. In Prince William, the county gained just more than 120,000 people between the years 2000 and 2010, with most of the growth along the Interstate 66 corridor, as young families moved here, Engelmann said. Between 2010 and 2020, county projections call for an addition of
about 60,000 to 70,000 people. And that growth, so far, is proving to be more widespread, Engelmann said. “Growth has taken place in all parts of the county,” he said, including on the eastern side and in Yorkshire in the western end. Why is that? Engelmann cites factors that have been true for decades: It’s more affordable to live in Prince William than to live closer to Washington. Residents can pay See GROWING, Page 4
Satterwhite to run for chairman By Jill Palermo
Times Staff Writer
The Great (Easter) Banquet
A moment of fellowship during the Easter Sunday services held by Potomac Valley Church at Freedom High School. More photos on page 2. PHOTO BY DELIA ENGSTROM
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After serving seven years as the Gainesville representative on the Prince William County School Board, Alyson Satterwhite says she’s ready to move to Alyson the chairman’s seat. Satterwhite But she’s waiting until the November special election to run for the post. The school board has a public hearing scheduled at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, to hear from the 20 candidates who applied to fill in for former Chairman Ryan Sawyers until
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