Melfa is a town in Accomack County on the Eastern Shore of Virginia in the United States.

[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.3 square miles (0.7 km2), all of it land.

[2] At the 2000 census there were 450 people, 183 households, and 131 families living in the town.

There were 205 housing units at an average density of 753.8 per square mile (293.2/km2).

[9] Accomack County Airport is in an unincorporated area near Melfa.