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Housing in Mount Tabor

A typical Mount Tabor home is worth roughly $421,000

Typical home value
$421K
VT $399K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,370
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$5,233
VT $5,039

What kind of housing town is Mount Tabor?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The homes

92% of Mount Tabor households own their home

Half of Mount Tabor’s homes were built before 1946.

Owners and renters
Own 92%Rent 8%

Vermont: 73% own.

1946
typical home built · VT 1976
$5,233
median property tax bill · VT $5,039
7%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Affordability

What it takes to buy in Mount Tabor

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$288,000
Typical Mount Tabor home $421K

That’s $133K short of a typical Mount Tabor home.

The typical home, each month
$2,760
Loan $2,080Tax $560Insurance $120

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,370 a month here, $1,390 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Vermont typical property tax (1.59% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,370

Renters already here pay a median of $2,143.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,040
1 bedroom$1,050
2 bedrooms$1,370
3 bedrooms$1,680
4 bedrooms$2,030
8%
of households rent · VT 27%
10
renter households
$2,143
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Rutland County, VT): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

Next door

Mount Tabor vs. its neighbors

Mount Tabor is the 3rd least expensive of 6 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentNew homes 2025Median income
Mount Tabor$421K*—$1,370——
Weston$554K−0.7%$1,1900$115,000
Dorset$731K+2.9%$1,2605$111,250
Peru$503K−1%$1,4405$151,875
Danby$374K+2.1%$1,460—$77,321
Mount Holly$405K+4.2%$1,3800$78,015

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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