Brattleboro, Vermont.
Typical home $318,749 (-3.1% in a year), asking rent $1,778 .
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$857 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,129 -3%
- $328,878$318,749 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,853 +9%
- $292,896$318,749 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.
- Brattleboro$1,673
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 41 years.
Typical home values in Brattleboro, VT fell 3.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont
Brattleboro, in Windham County, had 7,352 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $52,734 a year and half less, against $72,217 across Windham County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 51% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 49% are rented. Unemployment in Windham County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brattleboro is a small community with a more than usually educated population: many adults hold a four-year degree. Incomes are well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical, though about as many households own their homes as rent them. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and a good deal of snow, and summers are warm without being hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good share. Brattleboro Memorial Hospital and the Windham Southeast Unified Union School District are among the largest workplaces in town, along with Brattleboro Food CO-OP. Most people have a short trip to work, and some work from home.
Things to do. The Brattleboro Museum and Art Center and Fort Dummer are both in or beside town. A short drive away are Chesterfield Gorge Natural Area, a protected area, and Spofford Lake, a good place to be near the water.
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- 3,563households
- 47%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Windham County had 20,814 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 56°. About 60 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Keene weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brattleboro
- Brattleboro Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital519FTE
- Windham Southeast Unified Union School District #96School district438FTE
- CS Wholesale Grocers Brattleboro VT GDC426
- Brattleboro Food CO-OPGrocery stores196
- HannafordGrocery stores148
- Cersosimo Lumber CompanyHandle blanks, wood, manufacturing135
- GolubGrocery stores94
- Garware Fulflex USAAll other rubber product manufacturing91
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,117 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brattleboro’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 Windham County.
Brattleboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brattleboro$318,749
- Vermont$391,900
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Brattleboro listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Brattleboro24.35%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brattleboro33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brattleboro12
Zip codes with a Brattleboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brattleboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.