Rutland, Vermont.
Typical home $286,200 (+3.8% in a year), asking rent $1,508 . Rutland, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$834 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,601 +4%
- $275,599$286,200 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,466 +27%
- $225,734$286,200 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.
- Rutland$1,502
- 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 Rutland, VT rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont
Rutland is a city of 15,807 people in Rutland County. Half its households earn more than $57,675 a year and half less, against $68,616 across Rutland County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. Unemployment in Rutland was 3.3% in August 2026, and Rutland County had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rutland is a small city where residents tend to be older than in many places, and where most homes are lived in by their owners, with the rest rented. Incomes run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in the city are Rutland Regional Medical Center, Rutland City School District and Hannaford. Commutes are short, and unemployment has edged up a little from a year earlier.
Things to do. Close to town, you can visit Wilson Castle, a museum, take in a show at the Paramount Theatre, or walk beside Cold River. A short drive away is Killington Ski Resort, a well-known ski area, and the Vermont Marble Museum. For a longer outing, Lake George and Fort Ticonderoga are a longer drive away.
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- 7,414households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rutland County had 25,317 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 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 56°. About 75 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rutland weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rutland
- Rutland Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,306FTE
- Rutland City School DistrictSchool district353FTE
- BAYADA Home Health CareHome health care224
- HannafordGrocery stores194
- Rutland Mental Health ServicesCentralized administrative offices166
- The Pines at RutlandConvalescent homes or convalescent hospitals150
- Quarry Valley Unified Union School District #70School district142FTE
- Allaire Health ServicesSkilled nursing facilities125
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,576 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of RutlandRelatively moderate
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of RutlandRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of RutlandRelatively 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 Rutland’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 Rutland County and the Rutland, VT metro.
Rutland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rutland$286,200
- Vermont$391,900
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Rutland listings, and the typical home goes pending in 12 days — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Rutland32.67%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Rutland12
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rutland82
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rutland24
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Rutland$321,807
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Rutland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rutland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Rutland
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05701 | Rutland | 20,382 | $1,567 | $292,144 |
| 05736 | Center Rutland | 408 | — | $302,776 |