Pownal Center, VT population, income and ZIP codes

Pownal Center CDP is a very small community in Vermont, with 475 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #80 of 179 ranked by population — larger than 55% of them. The median age here is 45.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Pownal Center CDP earn a median of $74,286 a year, 5.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 13% above 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 6.7% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Pownal Center CDP is valued at $424,400, 39.9% above the national figure and 73% above the $245,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 74.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

With 475 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Pownal Center CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Pownal Center CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.