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Three suburbs to the west and northwest of our nation’s capital are recognized by Forbes.com in the 2010 - 2019 listings of the Best 25 Places to Move for work in the country. These are:

1. Franconia VA
2. Leesburg VA
3. Centreville VA

All 25 of these best places are so-recognized because more people move into these cities from out-of-state and from other countries than is true for other cities around the country, even if they are expanding.

A larger number of people are migrating to the 25 places honored on the Forbes.com list than into other places around America.

Franconia, Virginia

Franconia is nearest Washington DC. This unincorporated community is about 15 miles away and an unincorporated community in Fairfax County, Virginia. Its population approximately 35,000 in 2009. Franconia is also near to Alexandria VA, a historic city in its own right and often visited by vacationers in the DC area.

Franconia was established around 1870 after the Civil War by the construction of a railroad station called Franconia on the site, initiated by the old RF&P Railroad. It was just a whistle stop community until is began to develop 80 years later around 1950 during the Cold War. It drew increasing numbers of residents as a suburb of DC. It is likely growing the most quickly of the three suburbs mentioned here, because it is the closest to the American Capital.

Centreville, Virginia

Centreville is next farthest of this trio of suburbs from the capital, approximately 20 miles away. It is also located in Fairfax County and enjoys a population of 51,000+. It is also an unincorporated community.

Leesburg, Virginia

Leesburg is furthest from DC at about 40 miles away to the northwest - and is the county seat of Loudoun County, Virginia. It sits along the Catoctin Mountains and beside the Potomac River with a population of about 40,000 people. This is also an incorporated city and located at the end of Dulles Greenway toll road that joins the Dulles Toll Road for Washington Dulles International Airport.

This makes Leesburg an excellent residential suburb for Washington workers. The city is growing quickly, with marked expansions around the Dulles Greenway and along the Potomac River towards DC. In addition, another important feature of the city is the Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center, a vital transportation facility for our nation.

Another very quickly growing DC suburb on the Forbes list is Gaithersburg, Maryland.

During 2016, the job search and trending organization Indeed.com named Washington DC the Easiest City in the US to Find a Job, because of the number of job openings compared to job seekers. There are more jobs than available workers in DC, even during the first half of 2017..

Effective job matching services by government employment services, career coaches, recruiting agencies. and staffing services can help make these job openings useful job seekers.

Job postings recently included approximately 225,000 employment openings for this metro area, out to a radius of 25 miles from city center, largely in IT, Healthcare, and Sales.

Highest Demand Jobs in DC Metro to 2020

1. Project Managers - IT and others
2. Software Engineers
3. Systems Engineers
4. Java Developers
5. Program Managers - IT
6. Occupational Therapists - These will help us learn how to live and work in outer space.
7. Network Engineers, Managers, and Administrators
8. Business Analysts
9. Registered Nurses - RNs, including Travel Nurses in this metro area.
10. Physical Therapists - Needed for Wounded Warriors, the elderly, active retirees, and the US Space Program.

Companies Hiring the Most People

1. Booz Allen Hamilton - Aerospace
2. Bae Systems - Aerospace
3. Northrop Grummon - Aerospace
4. CACI International Inc - Aerospace
5. General Dynamics - Information Technology, Aerospace
6. Leidos - IT, Aerospace, Defense
7. Safeway grocery stores
8. Harris Teeter grocery stores
9. PetSmart
10. CVS Health
11. McDonalds Restaurants
12. Barr-Nunn Transportation - Trucking and Freight

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The following openings were found within 15-miles of Centreville.

1. Intelligence Analysts
2. Registered Nurses (RNs)
3. Systems Engineers
4. Certified Nurse’s Asstss (CNAs)
5. Network Engineers
6. Project Managers
7. Systems Integrators
8. All Source Analysts - Intelligence
9. Systems Engineers
10. Software Engineers
11. Physical Therapists
12. Program Managers
13. Java Developers
14. Business Analysts
15. Operations Subject Matter Experts

Top jobs listings are located within 15 miles of Franconia and do not overlap with Centreville job openings.

1. Registered Nurses (RNs)
2. Project Managers
3. Systems Engineers
4. Program Analysts
5. Program Managers
6. Administrative Assistants
7. Java Developers
8. Physical Therapists
9. Care Team Clincial Techs
10. Network Engineers
11. Business Analysts
12. Clinical Nurse III’s
13. Occupational Therapists
14. Web Developers
15. Systems Administrators

1. General Dynamics IT
2. Inova Health System
3. Northrop Grumman
4. SAIC
5. CACI International, Inc.
6. Booz Allen Hamilton
7. Lockheed Martin Corporation
8. BAE Systems-IT
9. Raytheon
10. CSC Computers
11. ManTech International Corporation
12. Freddie Mac
13. CriticalConnection – Healthcare
14. Deloitte
15. Mitre Corporation
16. Shady Grove Adventist Hospital

Over 50,000 job openings were found within a 20-mile radius of Leesburg, Virginia:

1. Intelligence Analysts
2. Project Managers
3. Systems Engineers
4. Network Engineers
5. Certified Nurse’s Assts (CNAs)
6. Java Developers
7. Software Engineers
8. Physical Therapists
9. Business Analysts
10. Systems Integrators
11. All Source Analyst - Intelligence
12. Systems Engineers
13. Administrative Assistants
14. Program Managers
15. Occupational Therapists

Variety of Jobs Available

The large DC Metro Area offers so many job openings that each suburb mentioned above boasts a Top 15 Hot Jobs.All of these suburbs are growing in both population as well as numbers of new businesses yearly as well. Each can stand on its own as a job center.

Although several similar job listings appear for the suburbs listed above, these are not the same job openings; they are all different.

Each of the communities offers these positions within a 15-mile radius of city center. All of these suburbs are job-rich and many suburban residents commute back and forth to DC for their careers as well.

Efficient, well maintained light rail services help to make this possible, reducing commuting times and drawing increasing numbers of new workers to the DC suburbs.