Stowe, Vermont.
Typical home $1,030,661 (+6.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,215 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $65,848 +7%
- $964,813$1,030,661 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $162,435 +19%
- $868,225$1,030,661 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.
- Stowe$5,410
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Stowe, VT rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stowe, Lamoille County, Vermont
Stowe, in Lamoille County, had 616 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Lamoille County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lamoille County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stowe is a small mountain community in Lamoille County, Vermont, with a population small enough that most people know one another by sight. Homes here are worth far more than in most of the country, and household incomes in the county sit well below what those home values might suggest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild and pleasant, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services, with the building trades close behind. Across Lamoille County, the largest workplaces include Smugglers' Notch Resort, Copley Hospital and the Lamoille North Modified Union School District. Unemployment across the county is low and little changed from a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs over the past year. Few residents work from home.
Things to do. Stowe Mountain Resort, a ski area a short drive away, is the best known place to spend a winter day. The Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum is in or beside town, and Putnam State Forest, a protected area, is a short drive away for walking and time outdoors. The Winooski River is a longer drive away.
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- 3%work from home
What people in Lamoille County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lamoille County had 12,608 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 54°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Morrisville Ssw weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lamoille County
- DH Stowe ManagementBtvdh463
- Smugglers' Notch ResortAlpine skiing facilities with accommodations461
- Copley HospitalCritical access hospital404FTE
- Manufacturing SolutionsExercise machines manufacturing254
- VR US Holdings IIAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations249
- Lamoille North Modified Union School District #058ASchool district201FTE
- Lamoille North Modified Union School District #058BSchool district183FTE
- Lamoille Health PartnersMedical doctors', mental health, offices165
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,958 people in all across the county; Stowe has one 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 weatherVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Stowe’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 Lamoille County.
Stowe home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stowe$1,030,661
- Vermont$391,900
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Stowe listings, and the typical home goes pending in 41 days — 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.
- Stowe17.50%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Stowe104
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Stowe22
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Stowe address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stowe — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.