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Wattsville CDP, Virginia: commercial real estate data.
Wattsville CDP is a Census CDP of 1,439 people across 4.29 square miles of land, in Accomack County. Median household income is $69,380, 65.5 percent of occupied homes are owned.
50 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Wattsville
What Wattsville is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area4.29 sq mi
- Water area0.1 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land335 plus or minus 104
- County holding the largest share of its areaAccomack County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wattsville
How many people live in Wattsville
- Population1,439 plus or minus 444
- Median age44.3
- Population under 18267 plus or minus 138
- Share under 1818.6 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Population 65 and over212 plus or minus 117
- Share 65 and over14.7 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Households592 plus or minus 198
- Family households325 plus or minus 129
- Share of households that are families54.9 percent plus or minus 11.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wattsville
Income and work in Wattsville
- Median household income$69,380
- Per capita income$32,407 plus or minus $6,468
- Civilian labor force750 plus or minus 277
- Employed684 plus or minus 266
- Unemployed66 plus or minus 82
- Unemployment rate8.8 percent plus or minus 10.4
- Adults 25 and over986 plus or minus 324
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher91.7 percent plus or minus 42.6
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher13.9 percent plus or minus 10.0
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.4 percent plus or minus 3.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wattsville
Housing in Wattsville
- Housing units674 plus or minus 225
- Occupied units592 plus or minus 198
- Vacant units82 plus or minus 89
- Vacancy rate12.2 percent plus or minus 12.6
- Owner occupied388 plus or minus 179
- Renter occupied204 plus or minus 109
- Ownership rate65.5 percent plus or minus 20.8
- Median owner-occupied home value$184,700
- Median gross rent, monthly$983 plus or minus $761
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.0 percent plus or minus 13.5
- Single family units553 plus or minus 216
- Share single family82.0 percent plus or minus 16.5
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes121 plus or minus 93
- Median year structure built1982
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wattsville
How Wattsville gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute674 plus or minus 275
- Commuting under 15 minutes159 plus or minus 86
- Share commuting under 15 minutes23.6 percent plus or minus 8.5
- Commuting 30 minutes or more153 plus or minus 118
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more22.7 percent plus or minus 14.8
- Drove alone69.4 percent plus or minus 21.2
- Carpooled0.3 percent plus or minus 0.4
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked5.6 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Worked from home3.7 percent plus or minus 3.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Accomack County, not Wattsville
Accomack County context, not Wattsville figures
These are Accomack County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Wattsville measurements.
- Establishments in Accomack County711
- Employment at those establishments, Accomack County9,186
- Covered employment, Accomack County13,149
- Average annual pay, Accomack County$52,649
- Average weekly wage, Accomack County$1,012
- Housing units permitted, Accomack County181
- Of those, single family, Accomack County181
- County product, 2024, Accomack County$2,039,420,000
- County product change over the prior year, Accomack County4.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Accomack County$64,085
Every figure in this section is published for Accomack County as a whole and is not a measurement of Wattsville. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Wattsville questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Wattsville, Virginia?
1,439, in 592 households. Wattsville CDP covers 4.29 square miles of land, which is 335 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Wattsville in?
Accomack County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Wattsville?
$69,380. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $184,700. Median gross rent is $983 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Wattsville figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Accomack County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Wattsville.
Is zoning published for Wattsville?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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