Strafford, Vermont.
Typical home $393,788 (+0.1% in a year). Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $262 (-11%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $389 +0%
- $393,399$393,788 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.
- Strafford$2,067
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Strafford, VT rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Strafford, Orange County, Vermont
Strafford is a town of 1,094 people in Orange County. Half its households earn more than $110,833 a year and half less, against $82,232 across Orange County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Orange County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Strafford is a small Vermont town whose residents are older than in most places, and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and relatively few people live below the poverty line. Most adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, the building trades and shops also employing local people. Across Orange County, some of the largest workplaces are Vermont State University, Gifford Medical Center and the Oxbow Unified Union School District. The typical commute is moderate, and a good number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county is low, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Thetford Hill State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, the Hood Museum of Art, and the Ottauquechee River, one of the better known waterways in the area.
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- 578households
- 53%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orange County had 7,791 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 57°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Union Village Dam weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Orange County
- Vermont State UniversityUniversity or college1,248
- Gifford Medical CenterCritical access hospital310FTE
- Oxbow Unified Union School District #91School district177FTE
- Orange Southwest Unified Union School District #59School district149FTE
- Paine Mountain Union School District #68School district126FTE
- HannafordGrocery stores112
- Blue Mountain Union School District #21School district100FTE
- Shaws SupermarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores87
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,009 people in all across the county; Strafford has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Orange County, 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 Orange County and the Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
Strafford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Strafford$393,788
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Strafford6
Zip codes with a Strafford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Strafford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Strafford
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05072 | Strafford | 751 | — | $399,553 |
| 05070 | South Strafford | 510 | — | $392,998 |