Barre, Vermont.
Typical home $305,895 (+0.1% in a year), asking rent $1,416 . Barre, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$911 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $173 +0%
- $305,723$305,895 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,016 +32%
- $230,879$305,895 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.
- Barre$1,606
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Barre, VT rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Barre, Washington County, Vermont
Barre is a city of 8,491 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $65,625 a year and half less, against $83,449 across Washington County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Barre was 3.9% in August 2026, and Washington County had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Barre is a small city in central Vermont, and owners and renters share its homes in roughly equal measure, so neither group dominates the streets. Incomes run well below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than most people would guess for a New England town. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild, with July the warmest; precipitation arrives as both rain and snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, government, and banks, insurance and property also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Barre are the Barre Unified Union School District, Rock of Ages and Buttura and Sons, and the stone firms among them are tied to the town's long stone-cutting trade. The commute is fairly short for most people, and some work from home. Unemployment is a little higher than a year ago, and across Washington County there are slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Barre Opera House is a theatre, and the Vermont Granite Museum is a museum for anyone curious about the stone industry that shaped the city. Hubbard Park, a short drive away, is a park for walking and being outdoors. For a longer outing, Groton State Forest is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 4,094households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 33,302 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 56°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Barre Montpelier Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Barre
- Barre Unified Union School District #97School district443FTE
- Capital Candy CoGeneral-line groceries merchant wholesalers165
- Buttura and SonsMonuments and tombstone, cut stone, manufacturing68
- Priority Healthcare GroupNursing homes67
- Rock of AgesDimension stone for buildings manufacturing40
- Norway & SonsFire alarm system, electric, installation only31
- Central Vermont Career Center SchoolsSchool district30FTE
- BarreMail and parcel delivery27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 398 people in all. School districts come 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Barre’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Washington County and the Barre, VT metro.
Barre home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Barre$305,895
- Vermont$391,900
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Barre listings, and the typical home goes pending in 24 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Barre27.92%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Barre24
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Barre69
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Barre24
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Barre$309,975
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Barre address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Barre — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Barre
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05641 | Barre | 16,936 | $1,430 | $311,958 |
| 05654 | Graniteville | 953 | — | $278,128 |