Stratton, Vermont.
Typical home $729,410 (+3.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,350 (+159%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,256 +3%
- $706,154$729,410 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $123,234 +20%
- $606,176$729,410 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.
- Stratton$3,828
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Stratton, VT rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stratton, Windham County, Vermont
Stratton is a town of 440 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stratton is a small mountain town in Windham County, Vermont, with a population younger than the typical American town's. Homes here are valued well above what most of the country pays, and no one in town is recorded as living below the poverty line. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and heavy snowfall, while summers stay mild and pleasant.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Windham County, some of the largest workplaces are Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, the Windham Southeast Unified Union School District and Landmark College. The drive to work is a fairly long one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Stratton Mountain Resort, a ski area, sits in or beside town. A short drive away are Bromley Mountain ski resort, Jamaica State Park and the Lye Brook Wilderness, both protected areas for walking and time outdoors. The Clark Art Institute, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 0%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
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 32° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 55°. About 75 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sunderland weather station, 10 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; Stratton 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Windham County, 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.
Stratton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stratton$729,410
- Vermont$391,900
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 9 Stratton 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.
- Stratton10.89%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Stratton25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Stratton9
Zip codes with a Stratton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stratton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.