Stafford County, VA

Key HUD figures for Stafford County, VA

Fair Market Rents by bedroom

HUD income limits by household size

Rank 1 of 133, and 13 other records hold it too

Every member of this HUD area is first in its own jurisdiction

The area's 19 records are split 14 in Virginia, 4 in Maryland and 1 in the District of Columbia. In each of the 3, the area's figures are the highest published anywhere in that jurisdiction — so all 19 pages on this site can accurately say they lead their state table, which tells a reader nothing about how the 19 compare with each other. They do not compare: their rent and income figures are identical.

The clearest illustration is the District of Columbia, the only record in its jurisdiction on this site — first of 1. Charles County, Maryland is first of 24 with the same numbers. Virginia's cohort is 133 records carrying 44 distinct two-bedroom rents, so a top position there sounds more discriminating than it is.

Seventh-highest area income in the country, an ordinary share

Seventh on income nationally, mid-table on what the rent takes

Measured against all 4,764 records, the area median family income here is 7th highest. The rent-to-income benchmark that results, 16.23%, is 2,169th lowest — almost exactly the middle of the dataset. A very high rent and a very high income cancel each other out on that measure.

The income limits behave the same way. The four-person Low Income limit is $106,800, which is 64.3% of the area median family income — the 3rd lowest such share of all 4,764 records, and one this page holds jointly with the other 18 members of its area. HUD publishes the derivation with its income-limits dataset; what the table shows is that a large area median does not scale the thresholds up in proportion.

HUD area for this county

National economic context

The figures below are federal and national. They are not specific to Stafford County and do not vary between counties.

Inflation (official BLS CPI-U national series)

Purchasing power decision engine

IRS reference

Publication 15-T (2026) — Federal Income Tax Withholding Methods. Official IRS publication →

Reference only. GovCalculator does not compute federal income tax withholding. The publication's withholding methods and tables are not ingested or modelled here.

Sources & methodology

HUD income limits and Fair Market Rents are taken from the fiscal-year tables HUD publishes per HUD-defined area — which can include more than one county — and joined to this county record. State comparisons are computed across the 2BR Fair Market Rents of the county records in the same state; the median uses the middle value and is not weighted by households or population, rank 1 is the highest rent in the state, and county records with identical rents share a rank.

The income figure used throughout this page is HUD's Median Family Income for the HUD area above. It is not a Census median household income and the two are not interchangeable.

The purchasing power module applies a historical CPI ratio: Adjusted = Nominal × CPI(to) / CPI(from). No interpolation is applied and missing months are not imputed; CPI-U is a historical index, not a forecast. The “STABLE” target adds a fixed +10% buffer over the local HUD Median Family Income — that buffer is a GovCalculator heuristic, not a HUD, BLS or IRS determination.

The CPI-U series is the official BLS CUUR0000SA0 index, not seasonally adjusted, taken from the published BLS series: 36 published monthly observations. Months BLS did not publish are not interpolated. IRS Publication 15-T is cited as an official reference only — no federal withholding is calculated anywhere on this site.

Verify eligibility requirements with local program administrators: household size, deductions, and program-specific definitions can materially change outcomes.

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