State housing costs

Vermont housing costs, ownership, and rent in the latest ACS

Statewide evidence on home value, income, owner costs, housing stock, tenure, vacancy, and rent for borrower planning.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

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The local figures answer the first question: Vermont's 2024 ACS housing baseline reports a median owner-occupied home value of $316,600, median household income of $81,203, and median selected monthly owner costs of $1,907 for owners with a mortgage. For borrower planning, those three reference points can nevertheless help a borrower identify which statewide value, income, and recurring-cost assumptions need local replacement first. They remain separate medians, not the price, income, and monthly budget of one typical household, and the $1,907 measure is not a real-estate-tax figure or a current mortgage quote. A real decision still needs local property evidence, borrower documentation, taxes, insurance, maintenance, association obligations, and current loan information.

Vermont's vacant-unit share is 19.4% within a statewide stock of 339,042 housing units. ACS vacancy includes categories beyond property currently offered for sale or rent, so 19.4% is not a live inventory rate and cannot measure competition for a selected home. Read beside the 73.2% owner share and 26.8% renter share, the vacancy figure helps describe how the broad stock was classified without predicting near-term supply. For borrower planning, a borrower should use current listings, property condition, days on market, concessions, and local professional context to answer transaction questions that 19.4% and 339,042 were not designed to resolve.