Mendon, Vermont.
Typical home $409,857 (+3.3% in a year). Rutland, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,321 (+159%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,182 +3%
- $396,676$409,857 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $114,551 +39%
- $295,307$409,857 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.
- Mendon$2,151
- 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 Mendon, VT rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mendon, Rutland County, Vermont
Mendon is a town of 1,149 people in Rutland County. Half its households earn more than $100,524 a year and half less, against $68,616 across Rutland County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Rutland County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mendon is a small town in Rutland County, Vermont, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and many people work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in the building trades, and in shops. Across Rutland County, some of the largest workplaces are Rutland Regional Medical Center, Powdr, which runs ski facilities, and the Rutland City School District. The typical commute is short, and unemployment in the county is low and has held steady over the past year.
Things to do. Winters are cold and very snowy, so skiing is close at hand: Killington Ski Resort and Pico Mountain are both a short drive away. For quieter outdoor time, Aitken State Forest lies in or beside town, and Gifford Woods State Park is a short drive away. Wilson Castle, a museum, is also a short drive from town.
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- 451households
- 49%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 22%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rutland County had 25,317 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 56°. About 75 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rutland weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rutland County
- Rutland Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,306FTE
- Integrated Manufacturing Rutland1,221
- PowdrAlpine skiing facilities with accommodations858
- Rutland City School DistrictSchool district353FTE
- Slate Valley Unified Union School District #62School district232FTE
- BAYADA Home Health CareHome health care224
- Casella ConstructionBackfilling, construction210
- VelcoElec bulk pwr trans and control200
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 49 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,962 people in all across the county; Mendon 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Rutland 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 Rutland County and the Rutland, VT metro.
Mendon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mendon$409,857
- 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.
- Mendon11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Mendon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mendon — 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.