Bakersfield, Vermont.
Typical home $344,131 (-0.7% in a year). Burlington-South Burlington, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$850 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,396 -1%
- $346,527$344,131 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,204 +10%
- $313,926$344,131 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Bakersfield$1,806
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 38 years.
Typical home values in Bakersfield, VT fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bakersfield, Franklin County, Vermont
Bakersfield, in Franklin County, had 347 people in the 2020 census. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Franklin County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Franklin County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Bakersfield is a very small Vermont community, home to far fewer people than most towns anywhere. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and the share of residents living in poverty is low. Winters are cold and long, with a great deal of snow, and summers are warm without being hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also common. Across Franklin County, some of the largest workplaces are Northwestern Medical Center, the Maple Run Unified Union School District and Mylan Technologies. The typical commute is a long one, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Chester Alan Arthur State Historic Site is a museum, and the Tyler Branch offers a river close to home. Farther afield, the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area, and Smugglers' Notch is a ski area, both a longer drive away. With snow most of the winter, the ski areas are a natural draw for cold-weather days.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
What people in Franklin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 16,625 jobs in 2025, 3.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 58°. About 83 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Enosburg Falls weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Franklin County
- Northwestern Medical CenterGeneral hospital566FTE
- Maple Run Unified Union School District #57School district510FTE
- Mylan TechnologiesPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing389
- Missisquoi Valley School District #89School district388FTE
- Peerless ClothingCustom tailors, men's and boys' suits, cut and sewn from purchased fabric313
- Barry Callebaut USAChocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans262
- Enosburgh-Richford Unified Union School District #88School district247FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores223
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,243 people in all across the county; Bakersfield has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bakersfield’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Franklin County and the Burlington-South Burlington, VT metro.
Bakersfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bakersfield$344,131
- Vermont$391,900
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bakersfield6
Zip codes with a Bakersfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bakersfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.