Wardsboro, Vermont.
Typical home $371,652 (-3.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,022 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $11,815 -3%
- $383,467$371,652 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,076 +18%
- $315,576$371,652 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.
- Wardsboro$1,951
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Wardsboro, VT fell 3.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wardsboro, Windham County, Vermont
Wardsboro, in Windham County, had 70 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $83,889 a year and half less, against $72,217 across Windham County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Windham County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Windham County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wardsboro is a very small community in Windham County, Vermont, where most residents are older than in most places and people tend to know one another. Its households earn more than the county's on average, and few live below the poverty line. Winters are colder than most of the country, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops and building trades. Manufacturing also provides work for some people. Across Windham County, jobs dipped slightly last year, and most residents make a commute by car of a typical length for rural Vermont.
Things to do. Jamaica State Park, a protected area a short drive away, offers a quiet place to walk and spend time outdoors. Stratton Mountain Resort, a ski area also a short drive away, is a well-known destination for winter visitors. The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, a museum a longer drive away, draws visitors interested in modern art.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
What people in Windham County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Windham County had 20,814 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 75° and lows near 56°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Peru weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Windham County
- Brattleboro Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital519FTE
- Windham Southeast Unified Union School District #96School district438FTE
- CS Wholesale Grocers Brattleboro VT GDC426
- G.S. Precision Inc Brattleboro Main PlantMachine shops400
- Landmark CollegeUniversity or college268
- Mountain Mount SnowAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations262
- Brattleboro Food CO-OPGrocery stores196
- SIT Graduate InstituteUniversity or college182
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 46 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,073 people in all across the county; Wardsboro has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wardsboro’s 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 Windham County.
Wardsboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wardsboro$371,652
- Vermont$391,900
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Wardsboro listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Wardsboro21.66%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wardsboro23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wardsboro5
Zip codes with a Wardsboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wardsboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.