Washington, Vermont.
Typical home $296,830 (-2.6% in a year). Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$619 (+66%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,947 -3%
- $304,776$296,830 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $12,300 -4%
- $309,130$296,830 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.
- Washington$1,558
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Washington, VT fell 2.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Washington, Orange County, Vermont
Washington is a town of 1,032 people in Orange County. Half its households earn more than $66,103 a year and half less, against $82,232 across Orange County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Washington is a small Vermont town where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and where incomes run below the county's. Few residents live below the poverty line, and about as many hold a four-year degree as not. Winters are long and cold, with January highs well below freezing and a great deal of snow, while July brings warm, mild days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, the building trades, and farming and forestry. 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 a long one, and a share of people work from home. Unemployment across the county is low, though the county has lost a few jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Jail Branch River runs in or beside town, a natural place for a walk along the water. A short drive away, the Barre City Hall and Opera House is a theatre, and Thunder Road International SpeedBowl is a race track. Allis State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 517households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents 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 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 76° and lows near 55°. About 89 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chelsea Northwest weather station, 5 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; Washington 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.
Washington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Washington$296,830
- 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.
- Washington6
Zip codes with a Washington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Washington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.