Leicester, Vermont.
Typical home $378,786 (-3.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$897 (+82%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $15,325 -4%
- $394,111$378,786 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,348 +5%
- $361,438$378,786 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.
- Leicester$1,988
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 74 years.
Typical home values in Leicester, VT fell 3.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Leicester, Addison County, Vermont
Leicester is a town of 990 people in Addison County. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Addison County was 2.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leicester is a very small Vermont town, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. The population is older than in much of the country, and the typical home is worth a good deal more than many would expect for a town this size. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, government and the building trades also employing many. Across Addison County, some of the largest workplaces are Middlebury College, Porter Hospital and the Addison Central Unified Union School District. Commutes are fairly long, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Dunmore and Branbury State Park both lie in or beside town, so swimming, boating and time outdoors are close at hand. Green Mountain National Forest, a protected area, is a short drive away for hiking and quieter woods. Fort Ticonderoga, a historic fort, is a longer drive away.
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- 454households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Addison County had 15,570 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 56°. About 73 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Salisbury North weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Addison County
- Middlebury CollegeUniversity or college1,244
- Simmonds Precision ProductsFuel system instruments, aircraft, manufacturing679
- Porter HospitalCritical access hospital467FTE
- Addison Central Unified Union School District #55School district304FTE
- Counseling Service of Addison CountyCounseling services270
- Mt. Abraham Unified School District #61School district236FTE
- Addison Northwest Unified Union School District #54School district198FTE
- Agri-MarkCheese, natural, manufacturing125
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,925 people in all across the county; Leicester has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Addison 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 Addison County.
Leicester home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leicester$378,786
- 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.
- Leicester6
Zip codes with a Leicester address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leicester — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.