About Mantua
Mantua is a small unincorporated community in northeastern Virginia.
Mantua holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 2.37 square miles.
📰 Mantua News Today
- Mantua Air Quality Index (AQI) and USA Air Pollution IQAir · Jun 25
- Body camera footage shows moments before Fairfax County police officer shoots, kills man in deadly stabbing incident DC News Now · Mar 19
- ‘Bloodbath': Man using cleaver to ‘butcher' his family is killed by Fairfax County police NBC4 Washington · Feb 23
- Police identify man shot, killed after 'butchering' his family inside Virginia apartment WJLA · Feb 25
- Fairfax Planners Approve 14-Home Mantua Redevelopment Patch · Jul 28
Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.
What Makes Mantua Unique
- An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
- Positioned in northeastern Virginia, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.
- Part of the fabric of Virginia — one of 688 recognized communities statewide.
Why People Love It Here
- Small-town pace of life: less traffic, more community, and neighbors who wave.
- Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
- Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 2 miles.
📍 Neighborhoods in Mantua
Click a neighborhood to see it on the map.
🍽️ Where to Eat in Mantua
- Artie's — american
- Cameron's Coffee & Chocolates — coffee shop (café)
- Erbil Kabob — arab
- Genki Izakaya — japanese
- Hot Spot — asian
- IHOP — breakfast
- Peri Peri Original
- Baku Delicious (café)
- Bon Bon's Café — vietnamese (café)
- Choong Man Chicken — chicken
Local spots mapped by the OpenStreetMap community.
🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Mantua
- Gateway Regional Park reviews ★
- Thaiss Memorial Park reviews ★
- Eakin Community Park reviews ★
- Eakin Park reviews ★
- East Blake Lane Park reviews ★
- Karen Drive Park reviews ★
- Mantua Park reviews ★
- Sally Ormsby Park reviews ★
- Towers Park reviews ★
- Wilcoxon Park reviews ★
Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.
⚡ Quick Facts
StateVirginia
TypeCDP
Population (2024)—
Land area2.37 sq mi
Coordinates38.8517, -77.2575