Worcester, Vermont.
Typical home $362,528 (-7.0% in a year). Barre, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$529 (+39%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $27,141 -7%
- $389,669$362,528 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $94,185 -21%
- $456,712$362,528 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.
- Worcester$1,903
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Worcester, VT fell 7.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Worcester, Washington County, Vermont
Worcester, in Washington County, had 120 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Washington County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Worcester is a very small community in Washington County, Vermont, where people tend to know one another. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and July the warmest, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, or in government. Across Washington County, unemployment is about where it stood a year ago, while the number of jobs dipped slightly over the last year.
Things to do. Putnam State Forest, a protected area, is a short drive away. The Winooski River, a river, and Trapp Family Lodge, a ski area, are both a longer drive off and are among the better known places nearby.
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What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 33,302 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 58°. About 126 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Worcester West weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- The State of VermontExecutive and legislative office combinations9,880
- Central Vermont HospitalGeneral hospital1,297FTE
- Norwich UniversityUniversity or college788
- Community College of VermontTwo-year college506
- Sugarbush Mountain ResortHotels499
- Barre Unified Union School District #97School district443FTE
- Harwood Unified Union School District #60School district352FTE
- Washington Central Unified Union School District #92School district300FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 48 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,774 people in all across the county; Worcester has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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 high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Worcester’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 Washington County and the Barre, VT metro.
Worcester home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Worcester$362,528
- 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.
- Worcester6
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Worcester address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Worcester — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.