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Chittenden County · Vermont

ZIP code 05405

Population, income, housing costs and the sales tax rate charged on purchases inside ZIP 05405 — Census 2019-2023 ACS 5-year, no modelled estimates.
Population
2,840

ZCTA residents

Median income
—

Household, past 12 months

Median home
—

Owner-occupied value

Sales tax
7%

Combined state + local

Quick answer

ZIP 05405 sits in Chittenden County, Vermont and is home to 2,840 people. Median household income is —, the median home is worth — and median gross rent is —. 100% of households own their home, and purchases are taxed at 7% combined.

County
Chittenden County

FIPS 50007

State
Vermont (VT)

265 ZIPs covered

Area codes
802

NANPA codes serving this area

Metro area
Burlington

Rate jurisdiction used for tax

The numbers for 05405

American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZCTA.

Population
2,840ZIP 05405 residents
Median household income
—Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value
—Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent
—Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age
19.2 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate
100%Owner-occupied households

ZIP 05405 in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

ZIP 05405 is a small town in Chittenden County, Vermont, with 2,840 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #61 of 265 ranked by population — larger than 77% of them. The median age here is 19.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 ZIP 05405 earn a median of not published a year. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 100% 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 ZIP 05405 is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 100% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 19.2 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.

The Census withheld household income, home value, gross rent for ZIP 05405 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.

Reading ZIP 05405 in context

How 05405 sits inside Chittenden County and Vermont.

ZIP 05405 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 05405 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 05405 reports a median household income of not published. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of not published. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at not published a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

A taxable purchase made inside 05405 carries 7% at the register, assembled from the Burlington jurisdiction stack: the Vermont state rate plus every county, municipal and special district levy that reaches this address. Because those district boundaries were drawn for schools, transit and hospital funding rather than for mail delivery, two addresses inside 05405 can legitimately fall under different totals — the rate shown here is the one that applies to the dominant jurisdiction.

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 05405 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.

Sales tax in 05405

What a purchase inside this ZIP costs at checkout.

Rate applied
7%Burlington jurisdiction stack
Tax on $100
$7Rounded to the dollar
Tax on $1,000
$70Before any exemptions

This ZIP falls inside the Burlington rate area, so state, county, city and district levies are published here as a full stack.

Affordability in this ZIP

Derived from the Census medians above — indicative, not an offer.

Rent burden
—Median rent ÷ median income
Price-to-income
—Home value ÷ household income
Est. mortgage
—20% down, 30-yr at 6.75%
Poverty rate
100%Residents below poverty line

A rent burden above 30% is the federal threshold for cost-burdened households, and a price-to-income multiple above 4× is generally considered a stretched housing market. The mortgage figure is principal and interest only — taxes, insurance and HOA dues are extra.

How 05405 compares

ZIP 05405 against the median ZIP in Chittenden County and across Vermont.

MeasureZIP 05405County medianState medianvs state
Median household income—$102,212$76,250—
Median home value—$404,000$257,900—
Median gross rent—$1,555$1,120—
Population2,8406,7361,025+177%

Medians are computed across the 18 ZIP areas in Chittenden County and the 265 ZIP areas in Vermont.

Statewide rank

Where this ZIP places among all 265 Vermont ZIP areas.

Income

Not published

—
Home value

Not published

—
Population

larger than 77% of 265 state ZIPs

#61

Nearby ZIP codes

Other ZIP codes filed under Chittenden County.

Adjacent ZIP Codes

Other ZIP codes in Chittenden County, Vermont.

ZIP 05405 questions

Common questions about this ZIP code.

Where is ZIP code 05405?
ZIP 05405 lies mostly in Chittenden County, Vermont. County assignment follows the largest share of land area, so a ZIP straddling a county line is filed under its dominant county.
What sales tax do I pay in 05405?
Purchases are taxed at 7% combined, built from the Burlington jurisdiction stack.
Is 05405 expensive to live in?
Median rent runs — a month, and the median home is worth — — — against the typical Vermont ZIP.
Is a ZCTA the same as a postal ZIP code?
Not exactly. The Census builds ZIP Code Tabulation Areas from the ZIP codes of addresses inside each census block, so a ZCTA can differ slightly from the USPS delivery route of the same number, and PO-box-only ZIPs have no ZCTA at all.

Related pages for this area.

Sources & transparency

Every figure on this page is a published estimate for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 05405, except the affordability ratios and mortgage estimate, which we derive from those medians and label as estimates.

Last reviewed December 2024. Figures are published for reference and can change; verify with the source agency before filing or contracting. How we build and check this data.