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Encyclopedia > Spring Valley, Washington, D.C.

Spring Valley is an upper class neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C. The neighborhood is situated west from American University's main campus on Massachusetts Avenue. The term upper class refers to a group of people at the top of a social hierarchy. ... Nickname: the District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Official website: http://www. ... American University (AU) is an internationally-known private university in the United States located at Ward Circle, straddling the Spring Valley and American University Park areas of Northwest Washington, D.C.. Roughly 5,000 undergraduate students and the same number of graduate students are currently enrolled. ... Massachusetts Avenue is the name shared by several prominent streets in the United States. ...


Spring Valley's inhabitants include lawyers, politicians and corporate officers. Several embassy residences are located in the area, such as the ambassador's houses of South Korea, Bahrain, Qatar and Yemen. A lawyer is a person licensed by the state to advise clients in legal matters and represent them in courts of law and in other forms of dispute resolution. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... A corporate officer or corporate executive is a manager or other similarly high-ranking officer in a corporation. ...


The neighborhood is known as particularly safe, with police reporting a zero percent crime rate over the past 5 years.


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