Williamstown, Vermont.
Typical home $293,603 (-3.6% in a year). Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$807 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,972 -4%
- $304,575$293,603 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,025 +9%
- $268,578$293,603 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.
- Williamstown$1,541
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 39 years.
Typical home values in Williamstown, VT fell 3.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Williamstown, Orange County, Vermont
Williamstown, in Orange County, had 1,264 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Williamstown is a small Vermont community where neighbors tend to know one another. Few adults here hold a four-year degree compared with many places, and a good share of households live below the poverty line. Typical home values sit at a level many buyers in other parts of the country would find modest. Winters are cold, with January highs well below freezing and lows near zero, while summers are pleasantly warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades and manufacturing also employing many. Some people work from home, though most travel to a job. Across Orange County, some of the largest workplaces are Vermont State University, Gifford Medical Center and Hannaford. Unemployment across the county is low and a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. A short drive away, Allis State Park and Hapgood State Forest offer protected woodland for walking and time outdoors. For something indoors, the Vermont Granite Museum, a museum, is also a short drive off, as is the Barre City Hall and Opera House, a theatre. Those who want to go farther can head a longer drive to the Green Mountain National Forest.
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- 604households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 9%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 26° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 56°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Barre Montpelier Airport weather station, 6 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; Williamstown has two 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 high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Williamstown’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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.
Williamstown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Williamstown$293,603
- 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.
- Williamstown10
Zip codes with a Williamstown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Williamstown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.