Bennington, VT population, income and ZIP codes

Bennington CDP is a mid-size town in Vermont, with 8,888 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #5 of 179 ranked by population — larger than 97% of them. The median age here is 45.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Bennington CDP earn a median of $53,839 a year, 31.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 18% below the $65,898 median for the 48 Vermont cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 12.4% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Bennington CDP is valued at $185,100, 39% below the national figure and 25% below the $245,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,095 a month, 22.1% below the national figure, or roughly $13,140 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 24.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 56.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.