ZIP code 05404

ZIP 05404 is a mid-size town in Chittenden County, Vermont, with 8,198 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #18 of 265 ranked by population — larger than 93% of them. The median age here is 32.7 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 ZIP 05404 earn a median of $77,020 a year, 1.9% below the national figure of $78,538. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 14.3% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 05404 is valued at $350,700, 15.6% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,635 a month, 16.3% above the national figure, or roughly $19,620 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 25.5% 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 4.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 38.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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.

ZIP 05404 is tabulated inside Chittenden County, Vermont, one of 18 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 265 across Vermont. Population sits in the small-town band, typically one main street plus the addresses that feed into it. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 05404 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 05404 reports a median household income of $77,020, 25% below the $102,212 county median, and close to the $76,250 typical VT ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $350,700, 13% below the county figure and 36% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,635 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Vermont charges 6% statewide, and local governments overlapping 05404 may add county, city or special-district levies on top. We publish the state floor for this ZIP rather than guessing a combined figure, because ZIP boundaries and taxing-district boundaries were drawn for different purposes and do not line up.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 05404 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.