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Welcome to the Great Falls Home page. The Great Falls Home page provides as much information as possible on Great Falls. Knowing Great Falls’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Great Falls’s Home page, you will also find Great Falls’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Great Falls has a population of 14793. 49.7% of Great Falls’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.3 are female. 71.7% of Great Falls is married and 94.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $1,128,512, and the average rent is $2,851. Household median income in Great Falls is $238,828, and the individual median income is $91,919. Great Falls’s Ethnic is the following: White(73.1%), Asian(21.8%), Hispanic(4%), Multiple(3.8%), Black(0.8%), Other(0.5%), Native(0.1%).


Great Falls is located at 38°59′53″N 077°17′18″W (38.9981653, −77.2883157) at an elevation of 344 feet (105 m). Located on Virginia State Route 7 in Northern Virginia, Great Falls is 15 miles (24 km) west-northwest of downtown Washington, D.C. and 10.5 miles (16.9 km) north of Fairfax, the county seat.Great Falls lies in the Piedmont upland on the right bank of the Potomac River.


The Potomac River forms the northern and eastern borders of the CDP, and several of its tributaries flow north and east through the CDP. From north to south, these include Nichols Run, Clarks Branch, and Difficult Run. Difficult Run (along with Leesburg Pike) forms the southern border of the CDP. Two of its tributaries, Captain Hickory Run and Piney Run, flow southeast through the southern part of the CDP.


The Great Falls of the Potomac River, the community's namesake, are on the east side of the CDP.According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 25.66 square miles (66.5 km2) of which 25.42 square miles (65.8 km2) is land and 0.24 square miles (0.62 km2) is water.As a suburb of Washington, D.C., Great Falls is a part of both the Washington Metropolitan Area and the larger Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area.


It is bordered on all sides by other Washington suburbs, including: Darnestown and Travilah, Maryland to the north, Potomac, Maryland to the east, McLean to the southeast, Wolf Trap to the south, Reston and Dranesville to the southwest, Sterling to the west, and Lowes Island to the northwest.


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