Saxtons River, Vermont.
Typical home $298,624 (+7.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$108 (+7%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $20,109 +7%
- $278,515$298,624 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.
- Saxtons River$1,567
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Saxtons River, VT rose 7.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Saxtons River, Windham County, Vermont
Saxtons River is a village of 479 people in Windham County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Saxtons River is a small Vermont village, among the smallest places a person is likely to read about, where neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes in the town sit below those across Windham County, and the share of people living below the poverty line is low. A typical home in the village is valued well above what a small place like this might suggest, though the figure is the village's own. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying close to freezing, while July brings pleasantly warm days, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. 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 about where it stood a year earlier, and the number of jobs has been close to level, slipping only slightly from the year before.
Things to do. Steamtown, U.S.A. is a railroad museum a short drive away, and the Fort at Number 4, also a short drive off, is a museum of the colonial frontier. For time outdoors, William C. Putnam State Forest, a protected area, is a short drive away, as are several rivers, including the Williams River. A longer drive brings you to Magic Mountain Ski Area for winter days on the slopes.
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- 3%below the poverty line
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, 8 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; Saxtons River 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Saxtons River’s census tracts, 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 Windham County.
Saxtons River home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Saxtons River$298,624
- 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.
Zip codes with a Saxtons River address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Saxtons River — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.