Windsor, Vermont.
Typical home $287,563 (+3.0% in a year), asking rent $1,356 . Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$788 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,258 +3%
- $279,304$287,563 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,763 +18%
- $243,800$287,563 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.
- Windsor$1,509
- 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 Windsor, VT rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Windsor, Windsor County, Vermont
Windsor, in Windsor County, had 2,139 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $51,197 a year and half less, against $77,594 across Windsor County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Windsor County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Windsor is a small Vermont community on the Connecticut River side of the state, with a history tied to the nineteenth century. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and homes are priced in a range that many would consider modest for New England. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Across Windsor County, larger employers include the Veterans Health Administration, the Hartford School District and Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center. A typical commute is a short one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, a protected area, and the Cornish Colony Museum and American Precision Museum are all in or beside town. A short drive away are Ascutney State Park, a protected area for walking and views, and Ascutney Mountain Resort, a ski area. The Sugar River is also a short drive away.
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- 1,048households
- 8%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Windsor County had 23,203 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 57°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the North Hartland Lake weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Windsor County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,001
- Hartford School DistrictSchool district321FTE
- Mt Ascutney Hospital and Health CentCritical access hospital317FTE
- VR NE HoldingsAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations308
- Precision Valley CommunicationsEngineering services282
- Springfield HospitalCritical access hospital244FTE
- Vermont Law and Graduate SchoolUniversity or college224
- Mountain Views Unified Union School District #76School district171FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,232 people in all across the county; Windsor has one of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Windsor’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 Windsor County and the Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
Windsor home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Windsor$287,563
- Vermont$391,900
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Windsor7
Zip codes with a Windsor address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Windsor — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.