Bolton, Vermont.
Typical home $418,127 (+2.5% in a year). Burlington-South Burlington, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,254 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,387 +3%
- $407,740$418,127 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $100,429 +32%
- $317,699$418,127 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.
- Bolton$2,195
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Bolton, VT rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bolton, Chittenden County, Vermont
Bolton, in Chittenden County, had 23 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Chittenden County was 2.3% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Chittenden County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bolton is a small rural community in Chittenden County, Vermont, where the population is among the lowest of any settled place on this page. Residents live in a quiet setting, with the county's larger towns and services within reach by car.
Work. Residents work in a mix of fields, most commonly in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, retail shops, and manufacturing. Across Chittenden County the number of jobs has stayed about the same over the past year, and unemployment is low.
Things to do. Lake Champlain, a lake a longer drive away, is one of the best known features of the region. Little River State Park, a protected area a short drive away, and Trapp Family Lodge, a ski area also a short drive away, are close by for outdoor days, especially in winter when snow is heavy and winters run cold.
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What people in Chittenden County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chittenden County had 103,261 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 69° and lows near 55°. About 235 inches of snow and 81 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Mansfield weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chittenden County
- University of Vermont Medical CenterGeneral hospital7,475FTE
- University of VermontUniversity or college4,482
- GlobalFoundries - BurlingtonMicroprocessor chip manufacturing1,687
- Cox EnterprisesAutomobile and other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers1,044
- BETA TechnologiesAircraft manufacturing683
- Essex Westford Educational Community Unified Union SD #51School district668FTE
- Champlain CollegeUniversity or college639
- Champlain Valley Unified Union School District #56School district540FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 172 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,177 people in all across the county; Bolton has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Bolton’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 Chittenden County and the Burlington-South Burlington, VT metro.
Bolton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bolton$418,127
- 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.
Zip codes with a Bolton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bolton — 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.