Milton, Vermont.
Typical home $451,400 (-0.1% in a year). Burlington-South Burlington, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,180 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $300 -0%
- $451,700$451,400 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,839 +17%
- $385,561$451,400 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.
- Milton$2,369
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Milton, VT fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Milton, Chittenden County, Vermont
Milton, in Chittenden County, had 3,804 people in the 2020 census. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Chittenden County was 2.3% 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 professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Milton is a small Vermont town in Chittenden County, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm without being hot. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than you might expect for the county, and the typical home is valued well below what the county's incomes might suggest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, manufacturing and shops also employing many. Across Chittenden County, the largest workplaces include the University of Vermont Medical Center, the University of Vermont and GlobalFoundries. Commutes are of moderate length, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Sand Bar State Park, a protected area, and the Browns River are both a short drive away, as is Indian Brook Reservoir. Lake Champlain, the best known of the nearby waters, is a longer drive away, and so is the Shelburne Museum for a day indoors. With snowy winters, the season suits those who like to stay active outside.
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- 1,442households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chittenden County had 103,261 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 61°. About 86 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Essex Junction North weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chittenden County
- University of Vermont Medical CenterGeneral hospital7,475FTE
- University of VermontUniversity or college4,482
- GlobalFoundries - BurlingtonMicroprocessor chip manufacturing1,687
- Cox EnterprisesAutomobile and other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers1,044
- BETA TechnologiesAircraft manufacturing683
- Essex Westford Educational Community Unified Union SD #51School district668FTE
- Champlain CollegeUniversity or college639
- Champlain Valley Unified Union School District #56School district540FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 172 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,177 people in all across the county; Milton has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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 weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Milton’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 Chittenden County and the Burlington-South Burlington, VT metro.
Milton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Milton$451,400
- Vermont$391,900
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Milton listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Milton35.96%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Milton43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Milton14
Zip codes with a Milton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Milton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.