Bennington, Vermont.
Typical home $249,862 (-0.4% in a year), asking rent $1,333 . Bennington, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$640 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $883 -0%
- $250,746$249,862 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,015 +14%
- $218,848$249,862 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.
- Bennington$1,311
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Bennington, VT fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bennington, Bennington County, Vermont
Bennington, in Bennington County, had 8,795 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $54,257 a year and half less, against $73,325 across Bennington County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. Unemployment in Bennington County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bennington is a small Vermont community in the state's southwest corner, with a population that skews older than much of the country. Household incomes in town run well below the county's, and homes are somewhat more often lived in by their owners than rented. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, summers are comfortably warm, and rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The biggest workplaces in Bennington include Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, the Mount Anthony Union High School District and the Town of Bennington itself. Commutes are short, and a share of people work from home.
Things to do. The Bennington Museum is in or beside town. Woodford State Park, a protected area, and the Walloomsac River are both a short drive away. For a longer drive, the Clark Art Institute is a well-known museum.
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- 4,043households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bennington County had 16,642 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 57°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bennington Morse St. Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bennington
- Southwestern Vermont Medical CenterGeneral hospital823FTE
- Mount Anthony Union High School District #14School district185FTE
- Town of BenningtonCity and town managers' offices95
- Sodexo at Southwest VT Supervisory UnionFood service contractors78
- Bennington Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities57
- Sacred Heart St. Francis de Sales SchoolChurches48
- BenningtonMail and parcel delivery38
- SeallOther residential care facilities34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,427 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Bennington’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Bennington County and the Bennington, VT metro.
Bennington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bennington$249,862
- Vermont$391,900
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Bennington listings — 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.
- Bennington27.78%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bennington36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bennington10
Zip codes with a Bennington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bennington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.