Fairfield, Vermont.
Typical home $369,552 (+4.5% in a year). Burlington-South Burlington, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,134 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,952 +5%
- $353,599$369,552 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $100,972 +38%
- $268,580$369,552 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.
- Fairfield$1,940
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Fairfield, VT rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fairfield, Franklin County, Vermont
Fairfield is a town of 2,044 people in Franklin County. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. 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 residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fairfield is a small town in Franklin County, Vermont, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Residents are somewhat older than the typical American, and a good share hold a four-year degree. Poverty is low, and home values run high for a rural town. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are mild and July is the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, manufacturing, and farming and forestry. Across Franklin County, the largest workplaces include Northwestern Medical Center, the Maple Run Unified Union School District and Mylan Technologies. The typical commute is a moderate drive each way, and relatively few people work from home. The county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier, though unemployment there remains low and close to where it stood a year before.
Things to do. The Chester Alan Arthur State Historic Site, a museum, is in or beside town and is the closest place to visit. A longer drive brings you to Lake Champlain, the best known of the area's waters, and to the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area good for walking and watching birds. Trapp Family Lodge, a ski area, is also a longer drive away and suits the snowy winters.
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- 733households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents 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 25° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 61°. About 80 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the St. Albans Radio weather station, 9 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; Fairfield has none 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Franklin County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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.
Fairfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fairfield$369,552
- 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.
- Fairfield12
Zip codes with a Fairfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Fairfield
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05455 | Fairfield | 1,286 | — | $393,839 |
| 05448 | East Fairfield | 1,010 | — | $375,857 |