Atlantic, Virginia.
Typical home $268,696 (+4.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$841 (+148%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,192 +4%
- $257,504$268,696 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $74,461 +38%
- $194,235$268,696 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.
- Atlantic$1,410
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Atlantic, VA rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Atlantic, Accomack County, Virginia
Atlantic, in Accomack County, had 808 people in the 2020 census. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Atlantic is a small community on Virginia's Eastern Shore, in Accomack County, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain through the year. The typical home here is worth more than the county's median household income might suggest at first glance, which is common in a place where people tend to stay and houses are held for a long time.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and farming and forestry also common. Across Accomack County, some of the largest workplaces are Perdue Foods, Accomack County Public Schools and Shore Memorial Hospital. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and the county has recently had slightly fewer jobs than the year before, with unemployment about where it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Outdoor and quiet pursuits are close by. The Pocomoke River and Wallops Island National Wildlife Refuge are both a short drive away, good for paddling, birdwatching and walking. The NASA Visitor Center, a museum, is also a short drive away. For the coast, Assateague Island, a beach, is a longer drive.
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- 29 mintypical commute
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 46° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 70°. About 8 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wallops Island Flight Fac weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Accomack County
- Perdue FoodsPoultry processing1,810
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing1,231
- Accomack County Public SchoolsSchool district897FTE
- Shore Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital300FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters245
- Fortrex - 1140 Perdue Farms Inc - AccomacJanitorial services230
- Goddard Space Flight CenterFederal government · National Aeronautics and Space Administration170
- Shore Health & RehabConvalescent homes or convalescent hospitals136
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,663 people in all across the county; Atlantic has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- HurricanesVery high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Atlantic’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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.
Atlantic home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Atlantic$268,696
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Atlantic address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Atlantic — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Atlantic
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23337 | Wallops Island | 666 | — | $287,833 |
| 23303 | Atlantic | 342 | — | $257,008 |