Middlebury, VT population, income and ZIP codes

Middlebury CDP is a mid-size town in Vermont, with 7,145 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #10 of 179 ranked by population — larger than 94% of them. The median age here is 23.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Middlebury CDP earn a median of $74,900 a year, 4.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 14% above the $65,898 median for the 48 Vermont cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 13.8% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Middlebury CDP is valued at $388,100, 27.9% above the national figure and 58% above the $245,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,287 a month, 8.5% below the national figure, or roughly $15,444 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.6% 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 5.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 58% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 23.5 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.