Underhill, Vermont.
Typical home $575,230 (+1.1% in a year). Burlington-South Burlington, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,407 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,405 +1%
- $568,825$575,230 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,113 +10%
- $523,117$575,230 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.
- Underhill$3,019
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Underhill, VT rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Underhill, Chittenden County, Vermont
Underhill is a town of 3,129 people in Chittenden County. Unemployment in Chittenden County was 2.3% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Chittenden County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Underhill is a small town in Chittenden County, Vermont, in the foothills below Mount Mansfield. Winters are long and cold, with far more snow than most of the country, and summers stay mild, with the warmest days only pleasantly warm. Poverty is low here, home values run well above what is typical nationally, and many adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. Across Chittenden County, the largest workplaces include the University of Vermont Medical Center, the University of Vermont and GlobalFoundries. Commutes tend to be on the long side, and the county's unemployment has stayed low and steady over the past year.
Things to do. Underhill State Park lies in or beside town, and the Long Trail, one of the best known hiking routes in the country, is a short drive away. In snowy months, Stowe Mountain Resort and Smugglers' Notch are both ski areas a short drive off. Lake Champlain, a larger body of water, is a longer drive away.
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- 1,197households
- 50%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
What people in Chittenden County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chittenden County had 103,261 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 69° and lows near 55°. About 235 inches of snow and 81 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Mansfield weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chittenden County
- University of Vermont Medical CenterGeneral hospital7,475FTE
- University of VermontUniversity or college4,482
- GlobalFoundries - BurlingtonMicroprocessor chip manufacturing1,687
- Cox EnterprisesAutomobile and other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers1,044
- BETA TechnologiesAircraft manufacturing683
- Essex Westford Educational Community Unified Union SD #51School district668FTE
- Champlain CollegeUniversity or college639
- Champlain Valley Unified Union School District #56School district540FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 172 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,177 people in all across the county; Underhill has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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 high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Chittenden 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 Chittenden County and the Burlington-South Burlington, VT metro.
Underhill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Underhill$575,230
- 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.
- Underhill10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Underhill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Underhill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.