It is the home of Inova Loudoun Hospital, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Lansdowne Resort, Prison Fellowship, and Lansdowne Woods of Virginia, a gated, age-restricted community.

Lansdowne is in eastern Loudoun County, 32 miles (51 km) northwest of downtown Washington, D.C., and 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Leesburg, the Loudoun county seat.

[1] Goose Creek flows northward through the northwestern part of the CDP, entering the Potomac River at the northern edge of the community, between the River Creek golf course community to the north and Elizabeth Mills Riverfront Park to the south.

The second is Lansdowne Woods of Virginia, a HOA consisting of five condominium associations totaling 1,057 homes.

Students in Lansdowne are served by Loudoun County Public Schools.