New Haven, Vermont.
Typical home $419,936 (+2.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,029 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,477 +3%
- $408,459$419,936 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,902 +12%
- $375,034$419,936 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.
- New Haven$2,204
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in New Haven, VT rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in New Haven, Addison County, Vermont
New Haven, in Addison County, had 245 people in the 2020 census. 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 people in Addison County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. New Haven is a very small Vermont community in Addison County, where neighbors tend to know one another and the pace is quiet. Homes here are valued well below what buyers pay in much of the country, though a typical home still costs a fair amount for the area. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying below freezing, while July brings warm summer days.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing or in the building trades. Few work from home, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than across much of the country. Across Addison County, some of the largest workplaces are Middlebury College, Simmonds Precision Products and Porter Hospital, and unemployment in the county is low and has held steady over the past year.
Things to do. Lake Champlain, one of the best known bodies of water in the region, is a longer drive away and suits a day of boating or a walk along the shore. History-minded visitors can head a longer drive to Fort Ticonderoga, a restored fort on the lake. Closer to home, Youngman Field at Alumni Stadium is a short drive away for a game, and Green Mountain National Forest offers woods and trails a longer drive off.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Addison County 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 29° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vergennes weather station, 6 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; New Haven 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in New Haven’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 Addison County.
New Haven home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- New Haven$419,936
- 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.
- New Haven5
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a New Haven address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls New Haven — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.