Orleans, Vermont.
Typical home $171,529 (+12.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$25 (+3%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $19,529 +13%
- $152,000$171,529 since Sep 2025
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.
- Orleans$900
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Orleans, VT rose 12.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Orleans, Orleans County, Vermont
Orleans is a village of 788 people in Orleans County. Half its households earn more than $57,159 a year and half less, against $70,103 across Orleans County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Orleans County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Orleans is a small village in northern Vermont, home to a small number of people. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Household incomes run below the county's, and the share of adults with a four-year degree is a minority. Winters are cold and long, with January the coldest month and a great deal of snow through the season, while July brings pleasantly warm days.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by government, transport, warehouses and utilities, and shops. Across Orleans County, the largest workplaces include North Country Hospital & Health CTR, Galvion and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is no higher than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before. Some residents work from home, though most work away from the house.
Things to do. Lake Willoughby, Crystal Lake State Park and Willoughby State Forest are all a short drive away, offering a lake, a protected area for time outdoors, and woodland to explore. The Willoughby River also runs a short drive from the village. For an evening out, the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, a theatre, is a longer drive away.
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- 393households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 8%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, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Orleans County
- North Country Hospital & Health CTRCritical access hospital349FTE
- GalvionSporting goods manufacturing325
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters260
- North Country Union High School DistrictSchool district168FTE
- Columbia Forest ProductsHardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing163
- Lake Region Union Elementary Middle School DistrictSchool district115FTE
- Derby School DistrictSchool district109FTE
- TivolyTools and accessories for machine tools manufacturing97
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,075 people in all across the county; Orleans has none of its own. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Orleans’ 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 Orleans County.
Orleans home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Orleans$171,529
- 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.
Zip codes with a Orleans address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Orleans — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.