Berlin, Vermont.
Typical home $400,699 (+0.5% in a year). Barre, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,104 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,821 +0%
- $398,878$400,699 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,338 +18%
- $339,361$400,699 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.
- Berlin$2,103
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Berlin, VT rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Berlin, Washington County, Vermont
Berlin is a town of 2,849 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $86,691 a year and half less, against $83,449 across Washington County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Berlin is a small Vermont town where the population skews older than in most of the country, and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and the share of adults with a four-year degree is modest. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are mild and comfortable, and precipitation is spread fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services close behind. Among the largest workplaces in Berlin are Central Vermont Hospital, Walmart and Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital. Commutes are fairly short, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Hapgood State Forest and Boyer State Forest are protected woodland in or beside town, handy for a walk close to home. A short drive away, the Vermont Granite Museum tells the story of the region's stone industry, and Hubbard Park offers green space. For a longer outing, Trapp Family Lodge is a ski area a longer drive away.
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- 1,195households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 12%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, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Berlin
- Central Vermont HospitalGeneral hospital1,297FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters236
- Vermont Psychiatric Care HospitalPsychiatric hospital196FTE
- Shaws SupermarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores157
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services83
- FedEx FreightLess than truckload general freight trucking42
- Kohl's39
- Vermont Power TechnologiesGenerators, electrical, merchant wholesalers39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 632 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Washington 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 Washington County and the Barre, VT metro.
Berlin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Berlin$400,699
- 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.
- Berlin8
Zip codes with a Berlin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Berlin — 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.