Onancock, Virginia

Onancock population, 2020 to 2024

Onancock lost 5 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +3.

Onancock covers 1.05 square miles of land, for 1,105 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Onancock is less dense than the typical town.

What county Onancock is in

All of Onancock's residents live in Accomack County, which had 33,411 residents in 2024. Onancock holds 3.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Onancock

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Onancock by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 23417. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Onancock is

The Census internal point of Onancock is at 37.710000, -75.743700. Richmond, the capital, is 93.3 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Exmore, VA (1,416 people), 13.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Hampton, VA, 54.9 miles away.

Daylight in Onancock

At 37.71° N, Onancock gets about 14 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 33 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Onancock

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Exmore, 13.3 miles away, with 1,416 people.