Roxbury, Vermont.
Typical home $319,263 (+0.1% in a year). Barre, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $49 (-3%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $292 +0%
- $318,972$319,263 since Sep 2025
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.
- Roxbury$1,676
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Roxbury, VT rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Roxbury, Washington County, Vermont
Roxbury is a town of 678 people in Washington County. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. 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 residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Roxbury is a very small Vermont town where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, a far higher share of owners than in most places. Winters are long and snowy, among the colder and snowier in the country, and summers are pleasantly warm, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year. A four-year degree is held by a fair number of adults, and homes here are worth more than many would guess for such a rural spot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and the building trades. Across Washington County, the biggest workplaces include the State of Vermont, Central Vermont Hospital and Norwich University. Unemployment across the county is low and has held steady from a year earlier, though the county has a few fewer jobs than it did, and commutes are fairly long, with only a small number of people working from home.
Things to do. Roxbury State Forest is in or beside town, giving easy access to woods and trails. A short drive away are Allis State Park and the Sullivan Museum and History Center, a museum. For skiing, Sugarbush Resort is a longer drive away.
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- 30%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents 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 29° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 55°. About 76 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Northfield weather station, 8 miles 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; Roxbury 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Washington County, 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 Washington County and the Barre, VT metro.
Roxbury home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Roxbury$319,263
- 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.
- Roxbury6
Zip codes with a Roxbury address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Roxbury — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.