Duxbury, Vermont.
Typical home $445,697 (-3.1% in a year). Barre, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,024 (+78%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $14,420 -3%
- $460,117$445,697 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $6,910 -2%
- $452,607$445,697 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.
- Duxbury$2,339
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Duxbury, VT fell 3.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Duxbury, Washington County, Vermont
Duxbury is a town of 1,413 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $105,208 a year and half less, against $83,449 across Washington County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% 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 people in Washington 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Duxbury is a small town in Washington County, Vermont, where most homes are lived in by their owners and very few households fall below the poverty line. Household incomes run well above the county's, and a good many adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in government. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are Central Vermont Hospital, Norwich University and The State of Vermont. A fair number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. Camel's Hump Forest Reserve lies in or beside town, and Camels Hump State Park is a short drive away for walking and time outdoors. Mad River Glen, a ski area, is also a short drive away. For a longer day out, Lake Champlain is a longer drive away.
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- 624households
- 58%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What people in Washington County 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 28° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 56°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waitsfield Southeast weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- The State of VermontExecutive and legislative office combinations9,880
- Central Vermont HospitalGeneral hospital1,297FTE
- Norwich UniversityUniversity or college788
- Community College of VermontTwo-year college506
- Sugarbush Mountain ResortHotels499
- Barre Unified Union School District #97School district443FTE
- Harwood Unified Union School District #60School district352FTE
- Washington Central Unified Union School District #92School district300FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 48 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,774 people in all across the county; Duxbury 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
- 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.
Duxbury home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Duxbury$445,697
- 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 Duxbury address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Duxbury — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.