A map provided by demographer Hamilton Lombard of the Weldon Cooper Center shows the area surrounding Winchester highlighted in a dark shade of green, indicating high levels of migration in the region from 2020 to 2023.
Leaders at Good Samaritan have wanted to bring a freestanding, inpatient hospice service to the valley since the nonprofit's inception in 1992. Now, 30 years later, the dream has become a reality.
Residents moving from D.C. and its surrounding suburbs are relocating further away than they have in the past, part of a national trend of remote workers leaving metropolitan cities for small rural communities.
Since 2020, Winchester has gained traction as Virginia’s fastest-growing metro area due to an outflow of remote workers from the Washington, D.C., region to the exurbs.
Nearly 20% of Americans 65 and older are still in the workforce, and nearly all of Virginia’s population growth since 2010 has come from its 60 and older population, largely due to birth and death rates and people living longer.