Northfield, Vermont.
Typical home $315,820 (+0.2% in a year). Barre, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$895 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $572 +0%
- $315,248$315,820 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,164 +25%
- $251,656$315,820 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.
- Northfield$1,658
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Northfield, VT rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Northfield, Washington County, Vermont
Northfield, in Washington County, had 3,757 people in the 2020 census. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Northfield is a small Vermont community with a settled feel, where more homes are lived in by their owners than rented. Incomes run below the county's, and winters are long and cold, with a good deal of snow, while summers are mild and warm. A four-year degree is held by a fair number of adults, and many residents drive some distance to work, though some work from home.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in government. Norwich University is the town's largest workplace, followed by Sodexo at Norwich UNI and Tops Markets. Across Washington County, jobs slipped slightly last year, and unemployment is about where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Sullivan Museum and History Center is a museum for an afternoon indoors. A short drive away are Hubbard Park and Allis State Park, both good for a walk outdoors, and the Vermont Granite Museum is also close by. For skiing in the snowy months, Sugarbush Resort is a longer drive away.
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- 1,270households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 33,302 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 55°. About 76 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Northfield weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Northfield
- Norwich UniversityUniversity or college788
- Sodexo at Norwich UNIFood service contractors33
- Tops MarketsGrocery stores25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 58 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Northfield’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 Washington County and the Barre, VT metro.
Northfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Northfield$315,820
- 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.
- Northfield16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Northfield6
Zip codes with a Northfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Northfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.