Putney, Vermont.
Typical home $378,071 (-1.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,021 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,727 -2%
- $384,798$378,071 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,103 +14%
- $332,968$378,071 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.
- Putney$1,984
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Putney, VT fell 1.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Putney, Windham County, Vermont
Putney, in Windham County, had 571 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Windham County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Windham 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Putney is a very small Vermont community, with far fewer people than most towns and a quiet, rural feel. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm without being hot. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades, and a fair number work from home. Across Windham County, the largest workplaces include Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, the Windham Southeast Unified Union School District and Landmark College. Unemployment across the county is low and little changed from a year ago, and the number of jobs has held about level.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center is a good place for an afternoon indoors. Chesterfield Gorge Natural Area is a protected area for walking, also a short drive off. Spofford Lake, a lake a short drive away, is a place to spend time by the water.
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- 10%work from home
What people in Windham County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Windham County had 20,814 jobs in 2025, 0.1% 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 81° and lows near 58°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Walpole 2S Nepp weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Windham County
- Brattleboro Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital519FTE
- Windham Southeast Unified Union School District #96School district438FTE
- CS Wholesale Grocers Brattleboro VT GDC426
- G.S. Precision Inc Brattleboro Main PlantMachine shops400
- Landmark CollegeUniversity or college268
- Mountain Mount SnowAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations262
- Brattleboro Food CO-OPGrocery stores196
- SIT Graduate InstituteUniversity or college182
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 46 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,073 people in all across the county; Putney has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Putney’s census tracts, 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 Windham County.
Putney home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Putney$378,071
- 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.
- Putney9
Zip codes with a Putney address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Putney — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.