RESTON, Virginia
Population: 58,404
Unemployment: 4.0 percent
Population Growth Since 1970: 5,722 to 58,404
Founded in 1964, Reston’s residents tend to be rather smart: 66 percent of those 25 or older have at least a bachelor’s degree. The largest economic activity in the city is of a professional, scientific or technical nature and that figures to grow since a private school called Ideaventions Academy recently opened. It is a STEM-based private elementary/middle school, and the only such school in the country to require computer science as part of its annual core curriculum.