Dover, Vermont.
Typical home $467,879 (-0.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,364 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,142 -0%
- $470,020$467,879 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,107 +11%
- $420,771$467,879 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.
- Dover$2,456
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 33 years.
Typical home values in Dover, VT fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dover, Windham County, Vermont
Dover is a town of 1,798 people in Windham County. Half its households earn more than $52,313 a year and half less, against $72,217 across Windham County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 people in Windham 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dover is a small Vermont town in Windham County, home to fewer people than most towns its age would suggest. Household incomes run well below the county's, though homes here are valued high for the area. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild and warm in July; a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Skiing shapes the local job market, and the largest workplaces in Dover are Mountain Mount Snow, VR US Holdings and SSI Venture. Unemployment across Windham County is low and close to where it stood a year ago, while the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Haystack Mountain Ski Area and Molly Stark State Park are both a short drive away, one for winter on the slopes and the other for time outdoors in a protected area. Whetstone Brook, a river, is also a short drive. For museums, the Clark Art Institute and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art are a longer drive away.
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- 697households
- 7%below the poverty line
What people in Windham County 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 29° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 75° and lows near 57°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rowe 3NE weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dover
- Mountain Mount SnowAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations262
- VR US HoldingsHotels and motels31
- SSI VentureSporting goods stores26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 319 people in all. 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 moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Windham 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 Windham County.
Dover home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dover$467,879
- Vermont$391,900
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 Dover 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.
- Dover12.70%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dover79
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dover17
Zip codes with a Dover address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dover — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Dover
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05356 | West Dover | 738 | — | $479,228 |
| 05341 | East Dover | 728 | — | $377,395 |