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Idylwood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 17,954 as of the 2020 census. It originally developed as a suburban community along the route of the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad, and higher along Virginia State Route 7. The construction of the Capital Beltway in the 1960s, and I-66 and the Orange Line of the Washington Metrorail system in the 1980s, as capably as the concurrent loan of open Tysons Corner into Washington’s leading suburban issue district, led to the increase of several apartment, townhouse, and small-lot single-family housing complexes, as well as the high-rise Idylwood Towers condominium, in the allowance of Idylwood lying to the north of I-66. The area to the south of I-66 remains primarily large-lot single-family.

Idylwood is located in eastern Fairfax County at 38°53′23″N 77°12′21″W / 38.88972°N 77.20583°W / 38.88972; -77.20583 (38.889722, −77.205920). It is bordered to the east by the city of Falls Church, to the north by Pimmit Hills and Tysons Corner, to the west by Dunn Loring, to the southwest by Merrifield, and to the south by West Falls Church. The Capital Beltway forms the western link up of the CDP, Virginia Route 7 (Leesburg Pike) forms the northern border, and U.S. Route 29 (Lee Highway) forms the southern border.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.81 square miles (7.3 km), of which 0.01 square miles (0.026 km) is water.