Fair Market Rent in Vermont by county (FY 2026)

Vermont's two-bedroom fair market rent lands at $1,362 for FY 2026, and this is a town-based state, so HUD builds its rent areas out of towns rather than treating every county as one uniform block. Chittenden County sits at the top with $2,140, shared with Franklin and Grand Isle counties as part of the Burlington-South Burlington MSA. Essex County sits at the bottom at $1,007, barely half of Chittenden's rate. Zoom into Washington County and the ZIP-level picture gets messier. Its Small Area FMRs run from $1,340 to $2,220, a $880 spread across 28 of its 30 ZIP codes. Only three of Vermont's 14 counties fall inside a shared metro rate. The rest set their own, which means where you rent matters as much as which county you're in.

3 of the 14 counties sit inside a HUD metro area and share that metro's rate. The other 11 get a county rate built from their own rents. The Vermont median of $1,362 is about 34% above the national median county ($1,018). HUD also publishes ZIP-level Small Area FMRs covering 14 of the 14 counties, which is where the real variation shows up. Pick a county below for the full studio-to-four-bedroom table, payment standard ranges and ZIP rates.

Vermont is one of the six New England states where HUD publishes rates by town rather than county. The county figures here fold those towns together. Open a county to see every town listed with its own rate.

The median two-bedroom moved up 6% from FY 2025. 14 counties went up, 0 went down, and the rest held.

HUD has already published FY 2027, effective October 1, 2026. Two-bedroom rates go up in 14 counties, down in 0, and hold in the rest. The table shows both years.