Richmond, Vermont.
Typical home $578,775 (+0.0% in a year). Burlington-South Burlington, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,510 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $191 +0%
- $578,583$578,775 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $88,256 +18%
- $490,519$578,775 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.
- Richmond$3,038
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Richmond, VT rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Richmond, Chittenden County, Vermont
Richmond, in Chittenden County, had 853 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Chittenden County was 2.3% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Chittenden County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Richmond is a small community in Chittenden County, Vermont, with a younger population than many towns its size. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with moisture falling through the year as both rain and melted snow. Homes here are valued well above what is typical for many parts of the country, and few residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. Across Chittenden County, the largest workplaces include the University of Vermont Medical Center, the University of Vermont and GlobalFoundries. The commute is moderate, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Iroquois is a lake a short drive away, and it is the closest of the nearby choices. A longer drive brings you to Lake Champlain, the Shelburne Museum, and ski areas such as Stowe Mountain Resort and Mad River Glen. With snowy winters, the skiing is close at hand for those who enjoy it.
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- 4%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Chittenden County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chittenden County had 103,261 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 88 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Burlington International Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chittenden County
- University of Vermont Medical CenterGeneral hospital7,475FTE
- University of VermontUniversity or college4,482
- GlobalFoundries - BurlingtonMicroprocessor chip manufacturing1,687
- Cox EnterprisesAutomobile and other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers1,044
- BETA TechnologiesAircraft manufacturing683
- Essex Westford Educational Community Unified Union SD #51School district668FTE
- Champlain CollegeUniversity or college639
- Champlain Valley Unified Union School District #56School district540FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 172 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,177 people in all across the county; Richmond 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Richmond’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 Chittenden County and the Burlington-South Burlington, VT metro.
Richmond home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Richmond$578,775
- 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.
- Richmond11
Zip codes with a Richmond address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Richmond — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.