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Vermont: county data, all 14 of them.

Every Vermont county has a data page built from federal sources, each figure carrying its publisher and period. What this page does not carry is the Vermont statutory framework, and the reason is below rather than hidden.

Counties
14
Population
647,106
Land area
9,217 sq mi
Establishments
20,512
Combined county GDP
$46.28 bn
SBA approvals recorded
1,430

Read this first

This is a county directory, not a state guide.

The county pages below are complete. They carry demographics, growth and migration, economic output, employment and wages, business establishments by industry, the construction pipeline, the SBA lending record including charge off rates, geography and hazard. Every figure names its publisher and the period it describes.

What is missing is the Vermont legal and regulatory frame: how zoning and land development codes work in this state, what the entitlement path looks like, which agencies permit what, and which statutes override local codes. That material requires a research pack for Vermont, and no such pack exists yet.

Why there is no state guide here

You cannot write Vermont zoning law from a population table. Everything on the county pages is derived from federal datasets that cover all counties equally; statutory analysis is not, and generating it anyway would produce confident text about the law that nothing behind it supports.

Florida and California have research packs and therefore have full state guides. The remaining eight, including this one, do not. That is stated rather than papered over.

Counties

All 14 Vermont county-equivalents.

Vermont counties: population, income, establishments and SBA activity
GeographyPopulationMedian incomeEstablishmentsCounty GDPSBA approvalsLand area, sq mi
Addison County37,664$89,6391,158$2.31 bn55766
Bennington County37,269$73,3251,258$2.38 bn71675
Caledonia County30,475$69,970913$1.64 bn66649
Chittenden County169,758$96,7595,665$16.40 bn411537
Essex County5,982$59,294107$182.9 m2664
Franklin County50,638$81,3131,101$2.86 bn96634
Grand Isle County7,450$97,396170$265.0 m1482
Lamoille County26,148$74,9081,001$1.65 bn82459
Orange County29,761$82,232711$1.19 bn72687
Orleans County27,606$70,103782$1.56 bn68693
Rutland County60,425$68,6161,945$3.79 bn123930
Washington County60,017$83,4492,118$5.19 bn174687
Windham County45,923$72,2171,657$3.10 bn100785
Windsor County57,990$77,5941,926$3.76 bn96969

The register

Every source behind these 14 pages.

SourcePeriod coveredLicence
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates2020-2024 5-yearUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2024Vintage 2024, estimates 2020 to 2024US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2CAGDP2, through 2024US Bureau of Economic Analysis, public domain
US EPA, Map of Radon Zones, county spreadsheet2024-05 publication, EPA 402/A-16/001US EPA, public domain
FEMA OpenFEMA, NFIP Community Status BookCommunity Status Book, as retrievedFEMA OpenFEMA, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA releaseFY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA releaseFY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary verticesTIGER county boundariesUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns2023US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages2024 annual averagesUS BLS, public domain
US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey2024 annualUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows2021 to 2022 filing yearsIRS SOI, public domain

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