Difficult Run is a

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Fairfax County, Virginia Fairfax County, officially the County of Fairfax, is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia. With a population of 1,150,309 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the most p ...

, United States. The population was 10,600 at the 2020 census. The CDP has a land area of 8.38 square miles.

Demographics

Difficult Run first appeared as a

in the 2020 U.S. Census.

2020 Census

At the 2020 census (some information from the 2022 American Community Survey) there were 10,600 people, 3,519 housing units and 3,277 households residing in the CDP. The

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was . The average housing unit density was . The racial makeup of the CDP was 73.27%

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, 1.45%

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, 0.14% Native American, 14.80% Asian, 0.03%

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, 1.25% from other races, and 9.06% from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race was 5.62% of the population. Of the households, 89.3% were married couple families, 3.8% were a male family householder with no spouse, and 6.3% were a female family householder with no spouse. The average family household had 3.27 people. The median age was 45.6, 27.6% of people were under the age of 18, and 17.7% were 65 years of age or older. The largest ancestry is the 18.2% who had English ancestry, 15.0% spoke a language other than English at home, and 12.9% were born outside the United States, 83.1% of whom were naturalized citizens. The median income for a household in the CDP was $250,000. 8.1% of the population were military veterans, and 82.5% had a batchelor's degree or higher. In the CDP 0.8% of the population was below the

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, none of those under age 18 and 0.5% of those age 65 or over, with 0.9% of the population without

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References

Census-designated places in Fairfax County, Virginia Washington metropolitan area Census-designated places in Virginia {{FairfaxCountyVA-geo-stub