Barnard, Vermont.
Typical home $621,643 (+0.4% in a year). Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,616 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,574 +0%
- $619,068$621,643 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,242 +6%
- $586,401$621,643 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.
- Barnard$3,263
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 59 years.
Typical home values in Barnard, VT rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Barnard, Windsor County, Vermont
Barnard is a town of 992 people in Windsor County. Half its households earn more than $97,581 a year and half less, against $77,594 across Windsor County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Windsor County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Barnard is a very small Vermont town, home to far fewer people than most places on this site. Household incomes here run well above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Homes sell for a good deal more than is typical across the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days without turning hot, and precipitation through the year is fairly generous.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and professional and business services. Across Windsor County, some of the largest workplaces are the Veterans Health Administration, Hartford School District and Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center. Unemployment across the county is low and unchanged from a year earlier, and the number of jobs there has edged up slightly. The usual trip to work is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Silver Lake State Park is a protected area in or beside town. A short drive away are the Ottauquechee River and Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, a protected area. Killington Ski Resort is a ski area a longer drive away, which suits the snowy winters.
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- 478households
- 3%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Windsor County had 23,203 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 57°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Woodstock weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Windsor County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,001
- Hartford School DistrictSchool district321FTE
- Mt Ascutney Hospital and Health CentCritical access hospital317FTE
- VR NE HoldingsAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations308
- Precision Valley CommunicationsEngineering services282
- Springfield HospitalCritical access hospital244FTE
- Vermont Law and Graduate SchoolUniversity or college224
- Mountain Views Unified Union School District #76School district171FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,232 people in all across the county; Barnard has none of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Windsor County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Windsor County and the Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
Barnard home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Barnard$621,643
- 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.
- Barnard18
Zip codes with a Barnard address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Barnard — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.