Plainfield, Vermont.
Typical home $349,604 (+0.2% in a year). Barre, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$841 (+85%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $757 +0%
- $348,847$349,604 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,092 +6%
- $328,512$349,604 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.
- Plainfield$1,835
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 56 years.
Typical home values in Plainfield, VT rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plainfield, Washington County, Vermont
Plainfield, in Washington County, had 424 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $46,987 a year and half less, against $83,449 across Washington County. 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 people in Washington 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plainfield is a very small Vermont community, home to fewer people than most towns in the county. Household incomes run well below the county's, while a typical home sells for a good deal more than that income might suggest. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July; the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in government. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are The State of Vermont, Central Vermont Hospital and Norwich University. The typical commute is a short one by the standards of many places, and unemployment across the county is low and unchanged from a year earlier.
Things to do. Groton State Forest and Kettle Pond State Park, both protected areas, are a short drive away. The Vermont Granite Museum is also a short drive away, as is the Barre City Hall and Opera House, a theatre. For skiing, Trapp Family Lodge is a ski area a longer drive away.
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- 24 mintypical commute
What people in Washington County 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 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, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- The State of VermontExecutive and legislative office combinations9,880
- Central Vermont HospitalGeneral hospital1,297FTE
- Norwich UniversityUniversity or college788
- Community College of VermontTwo-year college506
- Sugarbush Mountain ResortHotels499
- Barre Unified Union School District #97School district443FTE
- Harwood Unified Union School District #60School district352FTE
- Washington Central Unified Union School District #92School district300FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 48 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,774 people in all across the county; Plainfield has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Plainfield’s 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 Washington County and the Barre, VT metro.
Plainfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plainfield$349,604
- 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.
- Plainfield13
Zip codes with a Plainfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plainfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.