Orange, Vermont.
Typical home $306,758 (+0.0% in a year). Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$803 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $114 +0%
- $306,644$306,758 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,552 +12%
- $274,205$306,758 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.
- Orange$1,610
- 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 Orange, VT rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Orange, Orange County, Vermont
Orange is a town of 1,048 people in Orange County. Half its households earn more than $71,302 a year and half less, against $82,232 across Orange County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Orange County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Orange 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Orange is a small Vermont town where nearly everyone owns their home, a far higher share than across most of the country. Household incomes run below the county's, and the typical home is worth a good deal less than in many parts of the state. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and a fair amount of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades and manufacturing also employing a share. Across Orange County, some of the biggest employers are Vermont State University, Gifford Medical Center and Hannaford. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Groton State Forest, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Ricker Pond State Park, which makes for an easy outing by the water. Also a short drive off is the Barre City Hall and Opera House, a theatre in the nearby city. For a longer trip, Harvey's Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away.
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- 401households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Orange County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orange County had 7,791 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 53°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Plainfield weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Orange County
- Vermont State UniversityUniversity or college1,248
- Gifford Medical CenterCritical access hospital310FTE
- Oxbow Unified Union School District #91School district177FTE
- Orange Southwest Unified Union School District #59School district149FTE
- Paine Mountain Union School District #68School district126FTE
- HannafordGrocery stores112
- Blue Mountain Union School District #21School district100FTE
- Shaws SupermarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores87
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,009 people in all across the county; Orange 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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Orange County, 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 Orange County and the Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
Orange home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Orange$306,758
- 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.
- Orange6
Zip codes with a Orange address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Orange — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.