Vermont property tax rates by town: education and municipal

What the figures are

This page reproduces the education property tax rates the Department of Taxes set for each town for fiscal year 2026 (the homestead and nonhomestead rates on a property's listed, or grand list, value, with the district rate and the town's common level of appraisal they come from) and, from the Department's 2025 supplemental data for the same bills, each town's municipal tax rate, its local agreement rate, its effective school and municipal rates, and the rate of each village, fire, police, highway or downtown district inside a town. A Vermont bill carries the education rate and the municipal rate (and any local agreement or district rate); the files print them separately and this page shows them side by side, not added. Period: fiscal year 2026 (the 2025-26 school year, for 2025 grand list bills), from the Department of Taxes' rate table summary of August 18, 2025.

Unit. The statute states the education tax rates "per $100.00 of equalized education property value" and has the Commissioner divide them by "the number resulting from dividing the municipality's most recent common level of appraisal by the statewide adjustment". (32 V.S.A. § 5402)

Homestead and nonhomestead rates. In the table, the homestead rate is the district rate divided by the town's CLA ÷ statewide adjustment (72.36% for every town), and the nonhomestead rate is the state rate of $1.703 divided by the same ratio. A town whose listed values sit below market (a low CLA) therefore has higher rates on its listed values. (FY2026 rate table, checked on every row)

Municipal rate. The supplemental file's homestead and nonhomestead rates equal the FY2026 education rates on all 260 towns, and its municipal rate is municipal taxes divided by the municipal grand list, computed the same way as the education rates (checked on every town), so it is on the same listed-value basis. (2025 Taxes and Tax Rates by County, checked)

Effective rate. The Department's annual report defines effective tax rates as "the rates that would be in effect if all towns were appraised at 100% of fair market value", calculated as the tax revenues paid in a year divided by the equalized grand list. The effective-rate file prints them without a unit. (PVR 2026 Annual Report, Table 19)

• Education, municipal, local agreement and district rates are separate lines of a bill; the files print no total for any town, and this page does not add them. Coventry prints a municipal rate of 0, shown as printed; among the others the municipal rate runs from 0.0400 to 2.2493 (Barre City).
• The CLA runs from 45.90% (Killington) to 121.71% (Brookline), so rates on listed value are not comparable town to town as rates on market value; 32 towns are marked as reappraised for 2025.
• Six towns and gores (Averill, Averys Gore, Ferdinand, Lewis, Warners Grant, Warren Gore) print identical figures in the education table and no effective rates ("-"): the effective-rate file treats the Essex County Unified Towns and Gores as one entity, with an effective municipal rate of 0.038. A homestead declaration and income-based homestead credits change what a household pays; neither is in these files.

All 260 towns, FY 2026

Ranked by homestead education tax rate (per $100 of listed value), highest first. Click a heading to sort.

Village and district rates inside towns, 2025

The 68 sub-municipal districts the Department lists (villages, fire, police, highway, sewer and downtown districts). Each rate applies only inside the district, in addition to the town's rates; as printed, not added.

The files print no total rate for any town, and listed value differs from market value by each town's CLA, so no example bill is computed.

How to appeal an assessment in Vermont

1. File an objection in writing with the board of listers (grievance): at or prior to the time fixed for hearing appeals in the listers' notice (32 V.S.A. § 4222). (source)
2. Appeal the listers' final decision to the board of civil authority: within 14 days after the date of notice of the listers' decision (32 V.S.A. § 4404(a)). (source)
3. Appeal the board of civil authority's decision to the Director of Property Valuation and Review or to Superior Court: within 30 days after entry of the board's decision; the date the town clerk mails notice of it is deemed the date of entry (32 V.S.A. § 4461(a)); the two routes are described in the Legislature's 2015 tax appeals report. (source)

Read from the Vermont Statutes Online. The appeal concerns the listed value; the education rates themselves are set by the Department. Sources: 32 V.S.A. chapter 131, Appeals (§§ 4404, 4461), Vermont Statutes Online, read October 27, 2026; 32 V.S.A. § 4222, Procedure (grievance to the listers), Vermont Statutes Online, read October 27, 2026; Vermont Legislature, House Ways and Means, Tax Appeals Report (April 23, 2015), read October 27, 2026. The official notice and the body hearing the appeal govern the dates; this is not legal advice.

Questions

Other states

Town-by-town rates: New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maine and Massachusetts. County or district figures, by census region: Northeast: New York; Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin; South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia; West: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming. The states page compares them; the assessed-versus-market-value guide explains why a rate alone does not fix a bill.

Source: Vermont Department of Taxes, FY2026 Education Property Tax Rate Table - Summary as of August 18, 2025 (Common level of appraisal, statewide adjustment, district rate, homestead rate, state rate and nonhomestead rate for every town, city, unorganized town, gore and separately rated district, fiscal year 2026; read twice, both reads identical); Vermont Department of Taxes, Property Valuation and Review, 2025 Supplemental Data: Tax Rates: Taxes and Tax Rates by County (spreadsheet) (For every town, tax year 2025: grand lists, education and municipal taxes, the homestead, nonhomestead, municipal and local agreement tax rates, and each sub-municipal district's rate and taxes (village, fire, police, highway and downtown districts); read twice, both reads identical, and re-read by this build); Vermont Department of Taxes, Property Valuation and Review, 2025 Supplemental Data: Tax Rates: Effective Tax Rates by County (spreadsheet) (School (homestead and nonhomestead), local agreement and municipal effective tax rates for every town, tax year 2025; read twice and re-read by this build); 32 V.S.A. § 5402, Education property tax liability (Vermont Statutes Online) (The unit of the education tax rates (per $100.00 of equalized education property value) and the division by the municipality's common level of appraisal over the statewide adjustment); Vermont Department of Taxes, Property Valuation and Review 2026 Annual Report (January 27, 2026), Table 19, as posted by the Vermont Legislature (The definition of an effective tax rate, used only to describe the effective-rate columns). Checks: the education table was read twice, independently, and the homestead and nonhomestead rates agreed on all 260 rows; for every row CLA ÷ statewide adjustment reproduces the printed ratio, district rate ÷ ratio the homestead rate and $1.703 ÷ ratio the nonhomestead rate (780 checks); the two spreadsheets were read twice and this build reads them again; the municipal file's homestead and nonhomestead rates equal the education table's on all 260 towns, and taxes ÷ grand list reproduces its homestead and municipal rates; the only rows printing identical education figures are the six towns and gores named on this page; rows outside three interquartile ranges of the others on the homestead rate are flagged. Last checked October 27, 2026. See the methodology. Figures are reproduced from the official publication; the county, town or state office that issues the bill governs. Not tax or legal advice.