Vermont cities and towns

This directory lists every place the US Census Bureau tabulates in Vermont, ranked from the largest to the smallest by population. Incorporated cities, towns and villages appear alongside census-designated places (CDPs) — unincorporated communities that have no local government of their own but are counted separately because they have a recognised name and settled population. The suffix in each name ("city", "town", "village", "CDP") is the Census legal/statistical description, which is why you will see entries such as "Burlington city".

The largest place in Vermont is Burlington city with 44,649 residents, and the 179 places on this page hold 276,527 people between them. Median household income across the listed places runs from $23,068 to $174,722, and median home values range from $97,900 to $1,045,500 — a spread that shows how much local housing markets diverge inside a single state.

Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates, which average survey responses over sixty months. That averaging is what makes small towns measurable at all, but it also means the numbers describe the period as a whole rather than today. Blank cells are estimates the Census suppressed because the local sample was too small to publish reliably. Select any place to open its full profile with affordability ratios, poverty and homeownership rates, and links to nearby communities of similar size.

Most of what is listed for Vermont is small. 73% of the 179 places here hold fewer than a thousand residents, while 0 carry 50,000 or more and account between them for 0% of the state's 276,527 counted people. The ranking below is really two lists stacked together: a short one of cities and a very long one of villages. These are mostly very small areas — the median place counts 423 residents. Rankings at the bottom of this list are within each other's margin of error, so treat close positions as ties.

Buying is a little easier here than nationally: Vermont's median place shows $233,700 in home value on $67,083 of income, a ratio of 3.5 against 3.9 across the country. Median gross rent runs $1,040 including utilities, or about 19% of median household income annually.

The internal range is wide but not exceptional: $105,547 at the ninetieth percentile against $43,693 at the tenth, a 2.42× gap. At the edges, Stratton Mountain CDP tops the list at $174,722 and Waitsfield CDP anchors the bottom at $23,068.

About one row in 8 is incomplete — 22 of 179 places have a suppressed estimate, almost all of them at the small end. Five-year estimates average responses over sixty months, so what is published is a stable baseline rather than a reading of this month's market.

How many places does Vermont have? 179 appear in the current federal tabulation, counting incorporated cities, towns and villages together with census-designated places — unincorporated communities with no local government of their own. 73% of them have fewer than a thousand residents, so the list is far longer than the number of towns you would recognise by name.

Which Vermont row should I compare mine against? Pick places within roughly the same population band. In a state this spread out, size drives the housing and income figures more than region does.

How current is this? Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year release published by the US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates. It reflects the full survey window rather than a single date, and it is the most recent vintage available for places this small.