Vermont home sale prices

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Vermont

Home sale prices as a surface

This map turns recorded home sales across Vermont into a continuous price surface. Every cell is a distance-weighted average of the closings around it, so the map shows what a home tends to sell for in a place rather than the price of any one house.

Nothing here is precomputed. The dials on the Map tab change the reference size, the property types, the window of sales, and how far the averaging reaches, and the surface is recomputed in the browser as you move them. Step the window back in time to watch the pattern move.

Where to go from here

How the surface is built

Each cell of a grid about 250 meters on a side takes the Gaussian-weighted average of the sales in the window, with the radius set by the smoothing dial. Cells with fewer than the minimum number of sales within twice that radius are left blank, so the map does not invent prices where there are no closings.

Homes of different sizes sell for different amounts, so before averaging, each sale is scaled to the reference bedroom count using a straight-line fit of price on bedrooms across the sales in the window. Legend thresholds are set for a 3 bedroom home and rescaled by that same fit when you change the reference size, so the colors stay comparable across settings.

Adjusted values above the 99th percentile in the window are capped before smoothing, so one trophy sale does not tint a whole valley. The sales listed on the Readout tab are shown unadjusted.

The per-square-foot view divides each sale by its recorded floor area and skips sales without one. It is the better like-for-like comparison where floor area is well recorded.

What to keep in mind

Prices are recorded closings, not asking prices, and are not adjusted for inflation. The most recent quarters undercount because records reach the source with a lag, so read the newest windows with that in mind. Stowe has roughly 30 to 70 qualifying sales a year, which is why the defaults use a five-year window; outside the village centers the surface goes blank quickly unless the radius is widened.

Data sources

Recorded home sales, statewide RentCast property records, via the CommunityScale data lake. Each property carries its last recorded sale and a sale history; both are used, deduplicated by property and date. Residential sales since 2016 with a coordinate, one to six bedrooms, and a price between $25,000 and $15 million.

Town boundaries2024 US Census Bureau TIGER county subdivisions, simplified to about 30 meters.

Basemap2026 OpenStreetMap contributors, through the CommunityScale shared basemap.

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