Rutland County, Vermont

• White (non-Hispanic) 56,009 92.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,347 2.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 377 0.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 350 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,272 3.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 14 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 56 0.1%

• Under 18 10,508 17.4%
• 18–24 4,819 8.0%
• 25–44 13,173 21.8%
• 45–64 16,992 28.1%
• 65 and over 14,933 24.7%

Median household income

$69,554

90% interval $64,424–$74,684

−$13,282 vs VT · 10th of 14

Below poverty line

10.0%

90% interval 7.7%–12.3%

+0.7 pp vs VT · 5th of 14

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.9%

+0.24 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.8B

8.18% of state

Avg. annual pay

$61,345

Establishments

2,705

• Education & health services 6,688 26.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 5,285 20.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,541 14.0%
• Manufacturing 2,522 10.0%
• Professional & business services 2,379 9.4%
• Public administration 1,059 4.2%
• Other services 770 3.0%
• Financial activities 703 2.8%
• Information 10 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 90.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

75.1%

+1.9 pp vs VT · 8th of 14

Median gross rent

$1,000

−$234 vs VT · 11th of 14

Owner-occupied

19,017

Renter-occupied

6,304

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 61% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Professional & business services, $87,918/yr) pays 2.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $31,572/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.4 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Democratic 17,375 51.3%
• Republican 15,586 46.0%
• Other / third-party 922 2.7%

• Spanish 829 1.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 473 0.8%
• German or other West Germanic 251 0.4%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 139 0.2%
• Tagalog 80 0.1%
• Korean 73 0.1%
• Chinese 35 0.1%
• Arabic 3 0.0%

Households

25,321

Family households

14,538

57.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,931

20.2% of families

Single-mother families

882

6.1% of families

Veterans

3,801

7.6% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 11,049 18.2%
• Evangelical Protestant 7,544 12.5%
• Mainline Protestant 3,536 5.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,083 3.4%
• Orthodox 5 0.0%

Health insured

96.1%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

3.9%

±0.7 pp

8th of 14

With a disability

15.2%

±1.2 pp

9th of 14

Bachelor's or higher

35.3%

±1.9 pp

−8.5 pp vs VT · 10th of 14

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

5.6%

90% interval 4.9%–6.3% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

Rutland County Superior Court

Judges

4 (Vermont Superior Court Judge, approximate primary/resident assignment per county unit (Civil + Criminal Division combined). VT has ~33 Judges statewide who rotate assignments among the 14 county units under a unified bench (4 V.S.A. § 30), so any given trial day's working bench may differ from this count. Vintage 2026 vermontjudiciary.org roster.)

Court seats

Rutland

Traffic fatalities

6

12.02 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

6