Halifax, Vermont.
Typical home $327,146 (+2.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$904 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,335 +2%
- $319,811$327,146 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,118 +14%
- $287,028$327,146 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.
- Halifax$1,717
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Halifax, VT rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Halifax, Windham County, Vermont
Halifax is a town of 771 people in Windham County. Half its households earn more than $63,889 a year and half less, against $72,217 across Windham County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Halifax is a very small hill town in Windham County, with few residents and nearly all of them owning their homes. Incomes run below the county's, and adults here are more likely than not to hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades also common. Commutes are long, which fits a rural town where many people travel for work. Across Windham County, the largest workplaces include Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, the Windham Southeast Unified Union School District and Landmark College.
Things to do. Molly Stark State Park, a protected area, and the Southern Vermont Natural History Museum are both a short drive away, and Whetstone Brook, a river, is close by as well. For an outing further afield, the Clark Art Institute, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 306households
- 45%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
What residents 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, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Windham County
- Brattleboro Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital519FTE
- Windham Southeast Unified Union School District #96School district438FTE
- CS Wholesale Grocers Brattleboro VT GDC426
- G.S. Precision Inc Brattleboro Main PlantMachine shops400
- Landmark CollegeUniversity or college268
- Mountain Mount SnowAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations262
- Brattleboro Food CO-OPGrocery stores196
- SIT Graduate InstituteUniversity or college182
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 46 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,073 people in all across the county; Halifax has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- 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.
Halifax home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Halifax$327,146
- 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.
- Halifax6
Zip codes with a Halifax address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Halifax — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Halifax
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05342 | Jacksonville | 428 | — | $323,394 |
| 05358 | West Halifax | 403 | — | $309,690 |