Wakefield is an incorporated town in Sussex County, Virginia, United States.

Wakefield appears on the Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia first published in 1752.

The racial makeup of the town was 50.6% Black, 46.1% White, 0.3% Native American, 1.5% Asian and 0.6% from two or more races.

As of the census[3] of 2000, there were 1,038 people, 423 households, and 285 families living in the town.

30.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 17.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.