Pownal, Vermont.
Typical home $281,117 (-0.6% in a year). Bennington, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$720 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,592 -1%
- $282,708$281,117 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,034 +9%
- $259,083$281,117 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.
- Pownal$1,476
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 42 years.
Typical home values in Pownal, VT fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pownal, Bennington County, Vermont
Pownal, in Bennington County, had 548 people in the 2020 census. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Bennington County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bennington 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pownal is a very small community in the southwest corner of Vermont, in Bennington County, and almost every home in town is lived in by its owners. Few adults here hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying just below freezing, while July is the warmest month and brings comfortably warm days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Across Bennington County, the largest workplaces include Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, Mack Molding Company and Bennington College. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Mountain Meadow Preserve is a protected area in or beside town, and Natural Bridge State Park, another protected area, is a short drive away. For museums, the Bennington Museum and the Clark Art Institute are both a short drive away. The Hoosic River, a longer drive away, is there for a day out by the water.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
What people in Bennington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bennington County had 16,642 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 57°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pownal Northeast weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bennington County
- Southwestern Vermont Medical CenterGeneral hospital823FTE
- Mack Molding Company3089367
- Bennington CollegeUniversity or college347
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters280
- Taconic and Green Regional School District #63School district221FTE
- KamanAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing185
- Mount Anthony Union High School District #14School district185FTE
- Southwest Vermont Union Elementary School District #87School district157FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,548 people in all across the county; Pownal has none 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pownal’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 Bennington County and the Bennington, VT metro.
Pownal home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pownal$281,117
- 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.
- Pownal16
Zip codes with a Pownal address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pownal — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.