Sheffield, Vermont.
Typical home $220,861 (-0.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $269 (-19%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $439 -0%
- $221,300$220,861 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.
- Sheffield$1,159
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Sheffield, VT fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sheffield, Caledonia County, Vermont
Sheffield, in Caledonia County, had 186 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $65,795 a year and half less, against $69,970 across Caledonia County. Unemployment in Caledonia County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Caledonia 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sheffield is a very small community in Caledonia County, Vermont, with a younger population than most small towns. Incomes run somewhat below the county's, and a typical home costs well under what many homeowners elsewhere would expect. Few adults here hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Caledonia County, the largest workplaces include Northeastern VT Regional Hospital, Kingdom East Unified Union School District and Weidmann Electrical Technology. Some people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. Mathewson State Forest lies in or beside town, and Willoughby State Forest is a short drive away. The Museum of Everyday Life, also a short drive off, is a museum with a character all its own. Winters are long, cold and very snowy, while summers are mild and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 21 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Caledonia County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Caledonia County had 11,164 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 76° and lows near 56°. About 142 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sutton weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Caledonia County
- Northeastern VT Regional HospitalCritical access hospital390FTE
- Weidmann Electrical TechnologyCardboard stock manufacturing352
- Kingdom East Unified Union School District #64School district282FTE
- Bear Den Operations CompanyAlpine skiing facilities with accommodations245
- Leisure HotelsFacilities support services230
- Saint Johnsbury School DistrictSchool district134FTE
- Momentum Manufacturing GroupPowder coating metals and metal products for the trade128
- GolubGrocery stores109
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,771 people in all across the county; Sheffield has none of its own. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sheffield’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 Caledonia County.
Sheffield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sheffield$220,861
- 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 Sheffield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sheffield — 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.