Tangier, Virginia.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,135 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
Living in Tangier, Accomack County, Virginia
Tangier is a town of 436 people in Accomack County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tangier is a very small town, and nearly everyone who lives here owns the home they live in. Few residents hold a four-year degree, and very few live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with highs and lows that sit around and just below the freezing mark in January, and only a little snow, while summers are hot in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and farming, forestry and mining. Across Accomack County, the largest workplaces include Perdue Foods and Tyson Farms, both poultry processors, and Accomack County Public Schools. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than it was a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Martin National Wildlife Refuge and Janes Island State Park are protected areas, each a longer drive away. The Potomac River is also a longer drive away, and the Eastern Shore Railway Museum is a museum worth the same longer trip.
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- 2%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
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, 19 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; Tangier 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
- Coastal floodingVery high
- HurricanesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively 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 Tangier’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.
Tangier home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Tangier13
Zip codes with a Tangier address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tangier — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.