Wachapreague, VA

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Population
257
U.S. Census Population Estimates Program · 2025
Elevation
7 ft
Median Home Value
$205,800
U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year · 2024
Median Income
$65,179
U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year · 2024

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About Wachapreague

Wachapreague is a town in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. The 2020 census counted 257 residents. Bunting Place was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The Wachapreague Channel winds from the town, through the seaside marsh, out to the barrier islands. The short version is that Wachapreague carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Wachapreague: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Between Cedar and Parramore Islands it reaches the Atlantic Ocean.

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