Vermont

Key Details

• With 643,816 people, Vermont is the second least populous state in the United States.
• In Vermont, there were 334,318 housing units in 2024, with a vacancy rate of 18.3%. There were 2.28 persons living in households on average.
• Of Vermonters over 25, 26% have finished high school or an equivalent program, and 44.2% hold a bachelor's degree or above.
• In 2024, Phil Scott of the Republican Party becomes the governor of Vermont.
• After accounting for inflation, the median household income in Vermont is $73,991, which is somewhat less than the national average.
• In Vermont, the average life expectancy at birth is 78.8 years.

Vermont Population Demographics

Vermont is the second-least populated state in the US, with 65,887 more people than Wyoming. With 91.4% of the population, white residents make up the majority of the population.

Black residents make up 1.17%, Asians 1.66%, and the multiracial population 3.18%. With a Diversity Index of 20.2%, Vermont is the second least racially diverse state.

The state is divided 52.2% female and 49.8% male by gender. At the 75–79-year benchmark, the male population declining even further with age.

Additionally, Green Mountain State has the 11th smallest immigrant population at just 4.2%.

Elections and Voting

Vermont has had six Democratic governors, the most recent of whom left office in 2017. However, Republicans have controlled the state for the most part. Republicans alone held the office of governor of Vermont from 1855 to 1960. Phil Scott, a Republican, is its current governor.

When you consider other facets of governance, the narrative shifts, neither Republicans nor Democrats hold a trifecta in the state legislature because the Democratic Party controls both chambers.

At the federal level, the US Representative in Vermont is a Democrat, while its two senators representing Vermont are from the Democratic and Independent parties.

With 65.5% of the vote, the Democratic Party won Vermont's popular vote in the US 2020 presidential election. While the Republican Party settled for 30.4% and other parties took 1.87%.

Housing, Income, and Employment

There are 334,318 housing units in Vermont, many of which have one, two, or three bedrooms. Merely 20.4% of homes have four bedrooms or more.

In Vermont, the majority of homes are costly. 72.3% of all properties are valued between $200,000 and $999,999. As such, it is not surprising that in 2021, only 8% of the population moved into their own homes, while 35.2% moved into rental properties.

The employment rate in Vermont in 2021 was 62.8%, a little higher than the 60.3% national average.

Vermont Crime Rates

Vermont's violent crime rate was 221.9 per 100,000 in 2022, up 7.25% from the year before. The most significant increases recorded were in robbery (37% to 93 offenses), aggravated assault (21% to 969 offenses), and murder (7 to 23 offenses in 2022). The most significant decline was an 8.6% drop in total sexual offenses.

The following is a breakdown of violent crimes in Vermont:

• Aggravated Assault – 969
• Robberies – 93
• Rape – 236
• Homicide – 23

The rate of property crime rose from 2021 to 2022 by 10.6%. Vermont's total property damage as a result of criminal activity in 2022 was $18,181,383, an increase of $7,080,122 from the previous year.

The overall number of drug offense crimes reported has declined for the fifth year in a row. It has dropped by 43.47% since 2017, from 1,921 in 2017 to 1,086 in 2022.

How to Find People in Vermont

People can be easily located thanks to social media and public records. To find a person's basic information, search engines like Google search through billions of official papers, professional profiles, Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, and more.

These technologies make it possible to determine a person's address history and to create a map of their previous places. Finding a long-lost relative, former roommate or childhood buddy is not difficult. It's also a terrific approach to locating legal services or people running from the law.

However, getting someone's address is just the first step in gathering information about them. There's also a list of their professional and social media accounts. You can contact them via phone, email, or chat apps to find out more about their life.

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