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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clearly people are arguing about what an exurb is without knowing the definition.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/finding-exurbia-americas-fast-growing-communities-at-the-metropolitan-fringe/

“Since the Finding Exurbia report by the Brookings Institution in 2006, the term is generally used[citation needed] for areas beyond suburbs and specifically less densely built and populated than the suburbs to which the exurbs' residents commute.[9] To qualify as exurban, a census tract must meet three criteria:
Economic connection to a large metropolis.
Low housing density: bottom third of census tracts with regard to housing density. In 2000, this was a minimum of 2.6 acres (11,000 m2) per resident.
Population growth exceeding the average for its central metropolitan area.”

In the study (from 2006 though), the exurbs are Frederick, Charles, Calvert, extreme northern Montgomery and extreme southern Prince George’s, southern Anne Arundel, western Howard, western but not eastern Loudoun, only a bit of Prince William, Culpeper, Faucquier, King George, Orange, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Warren in VA and Jefferson County in WV.
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/20061017_exurbia.pdf see pages 17 and 22[/quote]

Old study that’s almost 20 years old. But the point still remains that places like Ashburn, Reston or Fairfax are not exurbs. [/quote]
I don’t think anyone was calling Reston or Fairfax exurbs. Ashburn yes but that’s because it’s in Loudoun which is further out.[/quote]

Someone upthread did. [/quote]

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