Braddock Virginia Map

About Braddock, Virginia

Braddock is a locality in Alexandria (city), Virginia, United States. It has a population of approximately 6,549. The population density is 396.5 people per km². Braddock is located at 38.8319°N, 77.3550°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 22302, 22030.

Braddock emerges from the gentle undulations of the Piedmont landscape as a quiet intersection of suburban order and the persistent, earthen memory of the Virginia landscape. It lies 1.6 miles northwest of Alexandria, VA (from Alexandria, VA: bearing 314°T), and is situated 5.4 miles south-southwest of Washington. Timber Branch carves a narrow, serpentine path through the terrain, its waters drawing a thin, verdant line through the residential blocks where the light at dusk often takes on a bruised, violet quality, softening the sharp angles of the built environment. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains occasionally assert themselves against the horizon, though the immediate geography remains defined by the cooling shade of the Timberbranch Parkway, which offers a quiet corridor of greenery for those who wander its paths. The air here holds a crisp, inland weight, untouched by the brackish humidity of the distant coast, and the earth beneath the local soil is a heavy, reddish clay that has long defined the character of the ground underfoot.

Braddock carries the quiet gravity of a region that has watched the slow transformation from colonial agrarian life to the dense, professional rhythms of the modern tech-corridor. While the local economy has pivoted toward the bustling demands of the capital’s administrative sphere, the lingering echoes of a slower era remain in the way the morning light catches the canopy of old-growth trees that survive in pockets near the outskirts. Residents often find their way toward the recreational stillness of Lake Barcroft or the more strenuous terrain of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Terminus, seeking a reprieve from the relentless pace of contemporary labor. There is a distinct, understated resilience in the way Braddock manages its growth, balancing the pressures of proximity to the seat of national power with the need to maintain a domestic, grounded existence that honors the ancient, silent passage of the local streams.

About This Braddock Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Braddock, Virginia. Coordinates: 38.831875, -77.355031. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Braddock includes the ZIP code (22302, 22030), telephone area code (703, 571), county seat of Alexandria (city), and school district assignment (Fairfax County Public Schools).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.