Most homes in Northern VA are owner occupied, but the closer you get to the urban center of Washington DC, the higher the absentee owner to owner occupied ratio. Here’s the nitty gritty on rental homes in Northern Virginia. According to the local tax records, here’s how the rentals stack up.
Fairfax County certainly has the lion’s share of rentals in the region – with 43.8%;
Loudoun County comes in 2nd with 20.7% and Prince William County pulls in 16.8%.
Northern Virginia – the backyard to Washington DC – has nearly 600,000 homes held by individual owners – and 1 in 5 are offered out as rentals. These graphs demonstrate how rentals (absentee owners) stack up to owner occupied homes.
