Accomac, Virginia.
Typical home $212,267 (+0.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$406 (+57%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $736 +0%
- $211,532$212,267 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $28,709 -12%
- $240,977$212,267 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Accomac$1,114
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Accomac, VA rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Accomac, Accomack County, Virginia
Accomac is a town of 519 people in Accomack County. Half its households earn more than $45,986 a year and half less, against $58,993 across Accomack County. Unemployment in Accomack County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Accomack County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Accomac is a very small town and the seat of Accomack County, on Virginia's Eastern Shore. Its residents are young for a place of its kind, and household incomes run below the county's. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and no one in town works from home. Winters are cool, with a little snow, and summers are warm, with rain spread through the year.
Work. People in town work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and farming, forestry and mining also providing work. The biggest workplaces in Accomac include Perdue Foods, a poultry processor, Accomack County Public Schools and the Virginia Department of Transportation. Unemployment in the county is about where it was a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Eastern Shore Railway Museum is a museum for anyone curious about local history, and Mark's and Jack's Island Natural Area Preserve is a protected area for quiet time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area that is among the best known on the shore.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 0%work from home
What people in Accomack County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Accomack County had 12,942 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 7 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Painter West weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Accomac
- Perdue FoodsPoultry processing1,810
- Accomack County Public SchoolsSchool district897FTE
- Fortrex - 1140 Perdue Farms Inc - AccomacJanitorial services230
- Virginia Department of TransportationHighway repair maintenance23
- Virginia Department of TransportationHighway repair maintenance22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,085 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Accomac’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Accomack County.
Accomac home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Accomac$212,267
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Accomac13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Accomac address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Accomac — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.