Walden, Vermont.
Typical home $290,551 (+1.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$796 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,333 +1%
- $287,217$290,551 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,332 +17%
- $249,219$290,551 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.
- Walden$1,525
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Walden, VT rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Walden, Caledonia County, Vermont
Walden is a town of 956 people in Caledonia County. Half its households earn more than $88,000 a year and half less, against $69,970 across Caledonia County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Caledonia County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Walden is a very small Vermont town where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and the people here are older than in most of the country. Household incomes run well above the county's, and the share living below the poverty line is small. Winters are long, cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild and pleasantly warm in July.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Caledonia County, the largest workplaces include Northeastern VT Regional Hospital, Weidmann Electrical Technology and the Kingdom East Unified Union School District. Unemployment in the county is low, and a good number of residents work from home, while the usual commute is a fairly short drive.
Things to do. The Winooski River is a short drive away, and other rivers and lakes lie farther off. Lake Willoughby is a lake a longer drive away, and Elmore State Park is a protected area, also a longer drive. For a rainy day, the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 464households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 21%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Caledonia County had 11,164 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 58°. About 87 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Saint Johnsbury weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Caledonia County
- Northeastern VT Regional HospitalCritical access hospital390FTE
- Weidmann Electrical TechnologyCardboard stock manufacturing352
- Kingdom East Unified Union School District #64School district282FTE
- Bear Den Operations CompanyAlpine skiing facilities with accommodations245
- Leisure HotelsFacilities support services230
- Saint Johnsbury School DistrictSchool district134FTE
- Momentum Manufacturing GroupPowder coating metals and metal products for the trade128
- GolubGrocery stores109
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,771 people in all across the county; Walden has none of its own. Hospitals come 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Caledonia 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 Caledonia County.
Walden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Walden$290,551
- 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.
Zip codes with a Walden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Walden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Walden
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05836 | East Hardwick | 1,531 | — | $288,988 |
| 05873 | West Danville | 864 | — | $347,612 |