Vermont, Wisconsin.
Typical home $680,742 (+0.3% in a year). Madison, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,811 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,942 +0%
- $678,799$680,742 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,062 +15%
- $593,680$680,742 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.
- Vermont$3,573
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Vermont, WI rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vermont, Dane County, Wisconsin
Vermont is a town of 871 people in Dane County. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Dane County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dane 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vermont is a very small rural town in Dane County, Wisconsin, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Poverty is uncommon, and a four-year degree is held by a large share of adults. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while summers are pleasantly warm in July, and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. Commutes are a little longer than a quick trip across town, which fits a place where many people work toward Madison. Across Dane County, the largest workplaces include the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of WI Hospitals & Clinics and the Madison Metropolitan School District. Unemployment across the county is low, and the county added a small number of jobs last year.
Things to do. Pleasant Valley Conservancy State Natural Area, a protected area, and Tyrol Basin, a ski area, are both in or beside town. A short drive away are Cave of the Mounds, a tourist attraction, and Blue Mound State Park, a protected area. Lake Mendota is a longer drive away if you want a bigger lake.
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- 45%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
What people in Dane County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dane County had 361,286 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 58°. About 30 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mazomanie Wwtp weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dane County
- University of Wisconsin-MadisonUniversity or college20,893
- University of WI Hospitals & ClinicsGeneral hospital9,994FTE
- Madison Metropolitan School DistrictSchool district4,048FTE
- Meriter HospitalGeneral hospital2,351FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,337
- Madison Area Technical CollegeUniversity or college1,902
- St. Marys HospitalGeneral hospital1,575FTE
- Sun Prairie Area School DistrictSchool district1,331FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 641 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 80,580 people in all across the county; Vermont has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Dane County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Dane County and the Madison, WI metro.
Vermont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vermont$680,742
- Wisconsin$337,196
- 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.
Zip codes with a Vermont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vermont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.