Lunenburg, Vermont.
Typical home $218,967 (+10.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$693 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,270 +11%
- $197,697$218,967 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,341 +36%
- $160,626$218,967 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.
- Lunenburg$1,149
- 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 Lunenburg, VT rose 10.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lunenburg, Essex County, Vermont
Lunenburg, in Essex County, had 234 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Essex County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Essex County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lunenburg is a very small Vermont community in Essex County, the kind of place where residents are likely to know one another. Winters are cold, with January highs staying below freezing and a great deal of snow through the season. Summers are mild and warm, and precipitation is spread fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops and government. Across Essex County, the largest workplaces include the Canaan School District, the Brighton School District and Sweet Tree Holdings 1, a syrup and flavoring manufacturer. The county has lost a few jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. The Johns River runs in or beside town, and Neal Pond, a small lake, is close by as well. A short drive away are the Israel River and Santa's Village, an amusement park. For a longer outing, Franconia Notch State Park and the White Mountain National Forest are both a longer drive away.
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- 9%below the poverty line
What people in Essex County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Essex County had 1,059 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 54°. About 76 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lancaster weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Essex County
- Canaan School DistrictSchool district35FTE
- Brighton School DistrictSchool district33FTE
- Sweet Tree Holdings 1Syrup, flavoring, manufacturing29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 29 people in all across the county; Lunenburg has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lunenburg’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Essex County.
Lunenburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lunenburg$218,967
- 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.
- Lunenburg9
Zip codes with a Lunenburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lunenburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.