St Johnsbury, Vermont.
Typical home $264,156 (+0.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$764 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $213 +0%
- $263,943$264,156 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,317 +30%
- $202,839$264,156 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.
- St Johnsbury$1,386
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in St Johnsbury, VT rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in St Johnsbury, Caledonia County, Vermont
St Johnsbury, in Caledonia County, had 5,994 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $53,711 a year and half less, against $69,970 across Caledonia County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. St Johnsbury is a small community in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, and it is the largest town in Caledonia County. Residents tend to be somewhat older than across the country as a whole, and incomes run below the county's. Owners and renters are fairly evenly balanced, with slightly more homes lived in by their owners. Winters are long, cold and very snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing and the building trades. The largest workplaces in town include Northeastern VT Regional Hospital, the Saint Johnsbury School District and the Golub grocery stores. Commutes are short, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Some of the best known places are right in town: the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, a museum, and the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium. The Moose River runs in or beside town, and the Passumpsic River is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Franconia Notch State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 2,681households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents 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 28° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 58°. About 87 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Saint Johnsbury weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St Johnsbury
- Northeastern VT Regional HospitalCritical access hospital390FTE
- Saint Johnsbury School DistrictSchool district134FTE
- GolubGrocery stores109
- Fairbanks ScalesManufacture and service scales87
- Maple Grove FarmsMaple syrup mixing into other products70
- Roman Catholic Diocese BurlingtonReligious organizations60
- Saint JohnsburyMail and parcel delivery25
- FedEx 2176 PORTLAND STTransportation air cargo24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 419 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in St Johnsbury’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 Caledonia County.
St Johnsbury home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- St Johnsbury$264,156
- Vermont$391,900
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 St Johnsbury listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- St Johnsbury29.38%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- St Johnsbury33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- St Johnsbury8
Zip codes with a St Johnsbury address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls St Johnsbury — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.