Thetford, Vermont.
Typical home $410,295 (-4.4% in a year). Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$991 (+85%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $18,811 -4%
- $429,106$410,295 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,786 +6%
- $388,509$410,295 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.
- Thetford$2,154
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 64 years.
Typical home values in Thetford, VT fell 4.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Thetford, Orange County, Vermont
Thetford is a town of 2,775 people in Orange County. Half its households earn more than $88,045 a year and half less, against $82,232 across Orange County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% 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 construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Thetford is a small Vermont town where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes run a little above the county's. Poverty is uncommon, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; precipitation falls as both rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in the building trades, shops, and professional and business services. Across Orange County, some of the largest workplaces are Vermont State University, Gifford Medical Center and the Oxbow Unified Union School District. Unemployment in the county is low and has eased slightly from a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. A fair number of residents work from home, and the typical commute is a short one.
Things to do. Thetford Hill State Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are the Hood Museum of Art and Dartmouth Skiway, a ski area. For a longer outing, Newfound Lake is a drive further afield.
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- 1,355households
- 68%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 14%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, 3 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; Thetford 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.
Thetford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Thetford$410,295
- 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.
- Thetford8
Zip codes with a Thetford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Thetford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Thetford
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05075 | Thetford Center | 1,438 | — | $400,653 |
| 05043 | East Thetford | 907 | — | $429,148 |
| 05058 | Post Mills | 128 | — | $361,390 |