Panton, Vermont.
Typical home $461,480 (+1.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $296 (-11%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $7,507 +2%
- $453,973$461,480 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.
- Panton$2,422
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Panton, VT rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Panton, Addison County, Vermont
Panton is a town of 646 people in Addison County. Half its households earn more than $86,667 a year and half less, against $89,639 across Addison County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. 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 residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Panton is a small farming town on the Vermont side of Lake Champlain, and its people are older than in much of the country. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and few residents live below the poverty line. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are cold, with January highs below freezing and lows close to zero, while July brings warm days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, the building trades and professional and business services. Across Addison County, the largest workplaces include Middlebury College, Simmonds Precision Products and Porter Hospital. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of residents work from home. Unemployment across the county is low and has barely changed over the past year.
Things to do. Button Bay State Park and Grand Isle State Park are protected areas a short drive away, and Fort Crown Point is a historic fort a short drive away as well. Lake Champlain itself is a longer drive away for anyone wanting to spend time on the big lake.
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- 264households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 27%work from home
What residents 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, 5 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; Panton 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Addison 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 Addison County.
Panton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Panton$461,480
- 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 Panton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Panton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.