Vergennes, Vermont.
Typical home $356,638 (-2.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$961 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,389 -2%
- $364,027$356,638 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,538 +18%
- $301,101$356,638 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.
- Vergennes$1,872
- 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 Vergennes, VT fell 2.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vergennes, Addison County, Vermont
Vergennes is a city of 2,553 people in Addison County. Half its households earn more than $76,587 a year and half less, against $89,639 across Addison County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Vergennes was 2.5% in August 2026, and Addison County had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vergennes is a small city in Addison County, Vermont, and the people who live there tend to be older than in most of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run below the county's. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold and snowy, with summers that turn pleasantly warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops also employing many. Across Addison County, the largest workplaces include Middlebury College, Porter Hospital and Simmonds Precision Products. Joblessness is low, and the commute to work is fairly short for many people, with some working from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Button Bay State Park and Kingsland Bay State Park offer time by the water, and Mount Philo State Park is another nearby protected area. Farther afield, a longer drive reaches Lake Champlain itself, and Fort Ticonderoga is a historic fort worth the trip.
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- 1,129households
- 42%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Addison County had 15,570 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vergennes weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Addison County
- Middlebury CollegeUniversity or college1,244
- Simmonds Precision ProductsFuel system instruments, aircraft, manufacturing679
- Porter HospitalCritical access hospital467FTE
- Addison Central Unified Union School District #55School district304FTE
- Counseling Service of Addison CountyCounseling services270
- Mt. Abraham Unified School District #61School district236FTE
- Addison Northwest Unified Union School District #54School district198FTE
- Agri-MarkCheese, natural, manufacturing125
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,925 people in all across the county; Vergennes has two 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
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Vergennes’ census tracts, 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 Addison County.
Vergennes home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vergennes$356,638
- 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.
- Vergennes12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Vergennes address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vergennes — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.