Newport, Vermont.
Typical home $261,695 (+5.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$763 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,163 +5%
- $248,532$261,695 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,057 +34%
- $195,638$261,695 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.
- Newport$1,374
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Newport, VT rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newport, Orleans County, Vermont
Newport is a city of 4,455 people in Orleans County. Half its households earn more than $54,646 a year and half less, against $70,103 across Orleans County; 23% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Newport was 3.6% in August 2026, and Orleans County had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newport is a small city in Orleans County, Vermont, and most people who live here are older than in many American towns. More homes are lived in by their owners than rented, and incomes run below the county's, with a good share of residents living below the poverty line. Winters are long and cold, with a great deal of snow, and summers are mild.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in restaurants and hotels, manufacturing, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Newport are North Country Hospital & Health CTR, Galvion and the North Country Union High School District. Unemployment is close to where it stood a year ago, though the county has lost a few jobs over the past year. Commutes are short, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Haskell Free Library and Opera House is a theatre a short drive away. Farther afield, Lake Memphremagog and Lake Willoughby are both lakes a longer drive from town, and Crystal Lake State Park is a protected area, also a longer drive away.
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- 2,031households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 14 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orleans County had 10,320 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 57°. About 99 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newport weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newport
- North Country Hospital & Health CTRCritical access hospital349FTE
- GalvionSporting goods manufacturing325
- North Country Union High School DistrictSchool district168FTE
- Columbia Forest ProductsHardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing163
- Newport City School DistrictSchool district91FTE
- Built by NewportNonupholstered wood household furniture manufacturing62
- AGS Supermarkets541149
- Genesis HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,285 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of NewportRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newport’s census tracts, 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 Orleans County.
Newport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newport$261,695
- Vermont$391,900
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Newport 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.
- Newport16.38%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Newport41
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Newport10
Zip codes with a Newport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.