Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Hybla Valley, VA

Hybla Valley is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, south of Alexandria along the Richmond Highway (U.S. Route 1) corridor, with ZIP code 22306.

The 2020 census counted 16,319 people in Hybla Valley, up from 15,801 in 2010.

Census QuickFacts figures for 2020–2024 put Hybla Valley at about 5,644 households, averaging 3.02 persons per household — larger households than the national norm.

Hybla Valley's population actually fell between 2000 and 2010, from 16,721 to 15,801, mainly because the CDP lost area when eastern neighborhoods including much of Hollin Hills were moved into the Fort Hunt CDP.

The CDP covers about 2.0 square miles, bordered by Fort Hunt to the east, Mount Vernon and Woodlawn to the southwest, and Groveton to the west and north, with Little Hunting Creek along its southern edge.

Hybla Valley began as dairy country: the Thomson Dairy, founded on the old Hollin Hall plantation land in the late 19th century, and farms such as Sherwood Farm, Hybla Valley Farm, and Popkins Farm were later converted into suburban neighborhoods.

Ambitious plans for the George Washington Air Junction and Hybla Valley Airport — once envisioned as a huge civilian airport — were abandoned, and the land is now part of Huntley Meadows Park just west of the community.

Within Hybla Valley sits Gum Springs, founded in 1833 by West Ford, a formerly enslaved man from George Washington's Mount Vernon, and recognized as the oldest African American community in Fairfax County.

During World War II, the nearby Hollin Hills subdivision was completed to designs by Charles Goodman and Robert Davenport, becoming a nationally noted example of mid-century modern residential design.

Paul Springs Valley Stream Park winds past the eastern edge of Hybla Valley, giving the dense suburb a wooded stream-valley greenway.