Johnson, Vermont.
Typical home $334,892 (-3.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$884 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,868 -3%
- $345,761$334,892 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,175 +12%
- $298,717$334,892 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.
- Johnson$1,758
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Johnson, VT fell 3.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Johnson, Lamoille County, Vermont
Johnson is a village of 1,332 people in Lamoille County. Half its households earn more than $48,633 a year and half less, against $74,908 across Lamoille County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Lamoille County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lamoille County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Johnson is a small Vermont village, and its residents are far younger than in most towns, which fits a place where students and young adults make up a large part of the population. Household incomes are well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a small village. A typical home is worth more than the town's incomes alone might suggest. Winters are colder than in most of the country, with long stretches of freezing nights, while July is mild and pleasant.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, then professional and business services and the building trades. Across Lamoille County, Copley Hospital and the Lamoille North Modified Union School District are among the largest workplaces, along with Smugglers' Notch Resort. The county has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is low and little changed from a year earlier. The typical commute is a fairly short drive, and a sizable group of residents work from home.
Things to do. Smugglers' Notch and Stowe Mountain Resort are both ski areas a short drive away, and Smugglers' Notch State Park and Elmore State Park offer protected woodland and trails close by. For a longer outing, Trapp Family Lodge is a ski area a longer drive away, and the Missisquoi River is a river a longer drive away.
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- 761households
- 18%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Lamoille County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lamoille County had 12,608 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 76° and lows near 56°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Johnson North weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lamoille County
- DH Stowe ManagementBtvdh463
- Smugglers' Notch ResortAlpine skiing facilities with accommodations461
- Copley HospitalCritical access hospital404FTE
- Manufacturing SolutionsExercise machines manufacturing254
- VR US Holdings IIAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations249
- Lamoille North Modified Union School District #058ASchool district201FTE
- Lamoille North Modified Union School District #058BSchool district183FTE
- Lamoille Health PartnersMedical doctors', mental health, offices165
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,958 people in all across the county; Johnson 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- 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 Johnson’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 Lamoille County.
Johnson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Johnson$334,892
- 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.
- Johnson13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Johnson4
Zip codes with a Johnson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Johnson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.