Fairfax, Vermont.
Typical home $458,052 (+0.6% in a year). Burlington-South Burlington, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,299 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,618 +1%
- $455,434$458,052 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $101,870 +29%
- $356,182$458,052 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.
- Fairfax$2,404
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Fairfax, VT rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fairfax, Franklin County, Vermont
Fairfax, in Franklin County, had 865 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Franklin County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Franklin County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fairfax is a very small community in Franklin County, Vermont, where most people know their neighbors by name. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across much of the country, while household incomes across Franklin County run a little above the national picture. The Browns River runs in or beside town.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and government. Across Franklin County, some of the largest workplaces are Northwestern Medical Center, the Maple Run Unified Union School District and Mylan Technologies. The county has lost some jobs over the past year, though unemployment remains low and close to where it stood a year earlier. The typical commute is fairly long, so many people drive some distance to work.
Things to do. The Browns River is in or beside town, and Lake Champlain is a longer drive away for time on the water. For winter days, Smugglers' Notch is a ski area a longer drive away. Winters are cold, with snow through much of the season, while summers are pleasantly warm.
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- 28 mintypical commute
What people in Franklin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 16,625 jobs in 2025, 3.6% 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 81° and lows near 61°. About 86 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Essex Junction North weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Franklin County
- Northwestern Medical CenterGeneral hospital566FTE
- Maple Run Unified Union School District #57School district510FTE
- Mylan TechnologiesPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing389
- Missisquoi Valley School District #89School district388FTE
- Peerless ClothingCustom tailors, men's and boys' suits, cut and sewn from purchased fabric313
- Barry Callebaut USAChocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans262
- Enosburgh-Richford Unified Union School District #88School district247FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores223
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,243 people in all across the county; Fairfax has one of its own. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Fairfax’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 Franklin County and the Burlington-South Burlington, VT metro.
Fairfax home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fairfax$458,052
- Vermont$391,900
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Fairfax 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fairfax19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Fairfax address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairfax — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.