Rochester, Vermont.
Typical home $342,269 (+4.9% in a year). Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,029 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,016 +5%
- $326,253$342,269 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,856 +26%
- $271,413$342,269 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.
- Rochester$1,796
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Rochester, VT rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rochester, Windsor County, Vermont
Rochester, in Windsor County, had 321 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Windsor County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Windsor 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rochester is a very small community in the hills of Vermont, with a home value well above what the county's income level might suggest. Winters are long and cold, with deep snow, and summers are warm without being hot. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, restaurants and hotels, and shops also employing many. Across Windsor County, the largest workplaces include the Veterans Health Administration, the Hartford School District and Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center. Unemployment across the county is low and has held steady over the past year, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Mount Cushman State Forest is in or beside town, and the White River is a short drive away, as is Chandler Music Hall, a theatre. A longer drive brings you to Green Mountain National Forest, a large protected area, and Killington Ski Resort, a ski area for the snowy months.
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What people in Windsor County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Windsor County had 23,203 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 55°. About 76 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rochester weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Windsor County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,001
- Hartford School DistrictSchool district321FTE
- Mt Ascutney Hospital and Health CentCritical access hospital317FTE
- VR NE HoldingsAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations308
- Precision Valley CommunicationsEngineering services282
- Springfield HospitalCritical access hospital244FTE
- Vermont Law and Graduate SchoolUniversity or college224
- Mountain Views Unified Union School District #76School district171FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,232 people in all across the county; Rochester has one of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rochester’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 Windsor County and the Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
Rochester home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rochester$342,269
- 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.
- Rochester15
Zip codes with a Rochester address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rochester — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.