Historical U.S. Census totals for Chittenden County, Vermont

This article shows U.S. Census totals for Chittenden County, Vermont, broken down by municipality, from 1900 to 2010.

Most areas of New England are entirely divided into incorporated municipalities, with no unincorporated territory. In the three northern New England states, however, some unincorporated territory does exist, generally in areas that are very sparsely populated. Chittenden County contains a very small amount of unincorporated territory, one of four counties in Vermont to have such areas. The unincorporated territory in Chittenden County consists of a tract called Buel’s Gore, measuring about five square miles, in the southeastern corner of the county. The population of Buels’ Gore has reached double digits in only two censuses since 1920. Except for Buel’s Gore, Chittenden County is entirely incorporated.

There are three types of incorporated municipalities in Vermont: towns, cities and villages. As in the other New England states, towns are the basic unit of municipal government. Cities are independent of and equivalent to towns, but differ in their form of government. Villages overlay towns and assume responsibility for some municipal services within their boundaries. Incorporated villages are not found in any of the other New England states, and are less common in Vermont today than they have been in the past. A number of villages have disincorporated over the years, choosing to revert to full town control; most of those that remain are very small.

It is possible for a village to become a city, in which case it becomes a completely separate municipality from its original parent town. Many of Vermont’s current cities are former villages (unlike the other New England states where cities are almost invariably former towns).

The main tables below show municipalities at the town level, differentiating between towns and cities. For any census, adding up the totals for each town-level municipality (as well as Buel’s Gore) should yield the county total. A separate section follows with population totals for villages from 1930 to 2000.

For more information on the New England municipal system, see New England town.

Corporate changes since 1900

1900

County Total: 39,600

Unorganized territory (Buel’s Gore) reported 20 residents.

1910

County Total: 42,447

Unorganized territory (Buel’s Gore) reported 16 residents.

1920

County Total: 43,708

Unorganized territory (Buel’s Gore) reported 14 residents.

1930

County Total: 47,471

Unorganized territory (Buel’s Gore) reported 4 residents.

1940

County Total: 52,098

Unorganized territory (Buel’s Gore) reported 4 residents.

1950

County Total: 62,570

Unorganized territory (Buel’s Gore) reported 3 residents.

1960

County Total: 74,425

Unorganized territory (Buel’s Gore) reported no residents.

1970

County Total: 99,131

Unorganized territory (Buel’s Gore) reported 10 residents.

1980

County Total: 115,534

Unorganized territory (Buel’s Gore) reported 9 residents.

1990

County Total: 131,761

Unorganized territory (Buel’s Gore) reported 2 residents.

2000

County Total: 146,571

Unorganized territory (Buel’s Gore) reported 12 residents.

2010

County Total: 156,545

Unorganized territory (Buel’s Gore) reported 30 residents.

Villages

This section lists census totals for incorporated villages for 1930 through 2000.

As of 1930, Chittenden County contained three incorporated villages:

Over the next few decades, two additional villages were incorporated, bringing the total to five:

Three of the villages have since disincorporated:

Note: Complete data for 1900, 1910 and 1920 are not available, but the population of the village of Winooski was 3,783 in 1900, 4,520 in 1910, and 4,932 in 1920 (by the time of the 1930 Census, Winooski had incorporated as a city). The population of the village of Jericho was not reported separately from the town of Jericho in the 1950 and 1960 Censuses; it is not clear why.

1930

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1950

1960

1970

1980

1990

2000

Notes

1970 Census

As had been the case with the 1950 and 1960 Censuses, the 1970 Census did not initially report the population for the village of Jericho separately from the town of Jericho. The inclusion of a total for the village of Jericho was a later revision. The village of Newbury, in Orange County, and the borough of Woodmont, Connecticut follow similar patterns.

2000 Census

The Census Bureau made a number of revisions to 2000 census totals subsequent to their initial release. The 2000 total for the city of Burlington was originally reported as 38,889; and for the city of South Burlington, 15,814. The totals were later revised to those shown in the list above. This was apparently done to correct an assignment error between the two municipalities; the collective population of the two is the same using either set of figures, so the county total was not affected.

See also

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