Barnet, Vermont.
Typical home $326,454 (+4.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$851 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,480 +5%
- $311,974$326,454 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,994 +15%
- $284,460$326,454 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.
- Barnet$1,713
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Barnet, VT rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Barnet, Caledonia County, Vermont
Barnet, in Caledonia County, had 127 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Caledonia County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Caledonia County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Barnet is a very small community in Caledonia County, Vermont, the kind of place where neighbors tend to know one another. Typical home values here run higher than most people would guess for a town this size, and household incomes across the county are modest by comparison.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Caledonia County, the largest workplaces include Northeastern VT Regional Hospital, Weidmann Electrical Technology and the Kingdom East Unified Union School District. Unemployment across the county is low, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly from the year before.
Things to do. The Passumpsic River runs in or beside town, and Harvey's Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Also a short drive off is the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, a museum. Winters here are long, cold and very snowy, while summers are pleasantly warm.
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What people in Caledonia County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Caledonia County had 11,164 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 58°. About 87 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Saint Johnsbury weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Caledonia County
- Northeastern VT Regional HospitalCritical access hospital390FTE
- Weidmann Electrical TechnologyCardboard stock manufacturing352
- Kingdom East Unified Union School District #64School district282FTE
- Bear Den Operations CompanyAlpine skiing facilities with accommodations245
- Leisure HotelsFacilities support services230
- Saint Johnsbury School DistrictSchool district134FTE
- Momentum Manufacturing GroupPowder coating metals and metal products for the trade128
- GolubGrocery stores109
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,771 people in all across the county; Barnet has one 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Barnet’s census tracts, 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 Caledonia County.
Barnet home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Barnet$326,454
- 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.
- Barnet10
Zip codes with a Barnet address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Barnet — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.