St. Johnsbury, VT population, income and ZIP codes

St. Johnsbury CDP is a mid-size town in Vermont, with 5,945 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #13 of 179 ranked by population — larger than 93% of them. The median age here is 43.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 St. Johnsbury CDP earn a median of $49,033 a year, 37.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 26% below 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 20.4% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in St. Johnsbury CDP is valued at $171,900, 43.3% below the national figure and 30% below the $245,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $887 a month, 36.9% below the national figure, or roughly $10,644 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.7% 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 3.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 53% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.