Bristol, Vermont.
Typical home $384,021 (-1.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$976 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,671 -1%
- $388,692$384,021 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,990 +17%
- $328,031$384,021 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.
- Bristol$2,016
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Bristol, VT fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bristol, Addison County, Vermont
Bristol, in Addison County, had 1,936 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $73,064 a year and half less, against $89,639 across Addison County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Addison County was 2.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Addison County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bristol is a small Vermont community in Addison County, and incomes here run below the county's as a whole. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and more people than you might expect work from home. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers stay mild and July is the warmest. Precipitation is steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades also employing many. Across Addison County, some of the largest workplaces are Middlebury College, Porter Hospital and the Addison Central Unified Union School District. Unemployment in the county is low and has barely changed from a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly. The typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. The ski areas Sugarbush Resort and Mad River Glen are a short drive away, and so is Camels Hump State Park for time outdoors. Lake Dunmore, a lake, is a longer drive away, as is the Shelburne Museum.
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- 1,142households
- 42%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What people in Addison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Addison County had 15,570 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 76° and lows near 54°. About 112 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the South Lincoln weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Addison County
- Middlebury CollegeUniversity or college1,244
- Simmonds Precision ProductsFuel system instruments, aircraft, manufacturing679
- Porter HospitalCritical access hospital467FTE
- Addison Central Unified Union School District #55School district304FTE
- Counseling Service of Addison CountyCounseling services270
- Mt. Abraham Unified School District #61School district236FTE
- Addison Northwest Unified Union School District #54School district198FTE
- Agri-MarkCheese, natural, manufacturing125
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,925 people in all across the county; Bristol has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bristol’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 Addison County.
Bristol home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bristol$384,021
- 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.
- Bristol5
Zip codes with a Bristol address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bristol — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.