Vershire, Vermont.
Typical home $326,985 (+3.9% in a year). Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $409 (-19%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $12,391 +4%
- $314,594$326,985 since Sep 2025
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.
- Vershire$1,716
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Vershire, VT rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vershire, Orange County, Vermont
Vershire is a town of 672 people in Orange County. Half its households earn more than $71,618 a year and half less, against $82,232 across Orange County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% 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 people in Orange 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vershire is a very small Vermont town, with few enough residents that neighbors tend to know one another. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run below the county's, with a noticeable share of residents living below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and snow a regular part of the year, while July is pleasantly warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades and manufacturing also employing many. Across Orange County, some of the largest workplaces are Vermont State University, Gifford Medical Center and the Oxbow Unified Union School District. The typical commute is long, and a modest share of people work from home; the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier.
Things to do. The Jail Branch River is a short drive away, and the other places worth a trip are a longer drive off. Allis State Park is a protected area for walking and time outdoors, and the Enfield Shaker Museum is a museum with a story to tell about the region's past. The White River is another river within a longer drive.
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- 372households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Orange County 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 25° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 56°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Corinth weather station, 4 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; Vershire has none 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.
Vershire home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vershire$326,985
- 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.
- Vershire6
Zip codes with a Vershire address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vershire — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.