Rutland County is a county in Vermont, United States, about 70 miles southwest of Albany, New York. It had a population of 60,572 at the 2020 census, making it Vermont’s second most populous county, and covers 945 square miles (2,450 km2) centred near 43\u00b035\u2032N 73\u00b002\u2032W.<\/p>\n
Rutland is the county seat, an independent city separate from the surrounding town of the same name; its postal code is 05701. The county holds 1 city, 27 incorporated towns and about a dozen smaller villages and unincorporated communities, and it runs on Eastern Time. Its FIPS code is 50021.<\/p>\n
Rutland County has 40 named places on record: 1 city, 27 incorporated towns, and 12 smaller villages and unincorporated communities with no local government of their own. CDP stands for census designated place; Unincorp. covers hamlets and postal villages the Census Bureau has not designated as CDPs.<\/p>\n
| Place<\/th>\n | Type<\/th>\n | Pop.<\/th>\n | ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rutland<\/td>\n | City · seat<\/td>\n | 15,807<\/td>\n | 05701<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Castleton<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 4,458<\/td>\n | 05735<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Brandon<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 4,129<\/td>\n | 05733<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Rutland (town)<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 3,924<\/td>\n | 05701<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Poultney<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 3,020<\/td>\n | 05764<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Fair Haven<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 2,736<\/td>\n | 05743<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Pittsford<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 2,862<\/td>\n | 05763<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| West Rutland<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 2,214<\/td>\n | 05777<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Wallingford<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 2,129<\/td>\n | 05773<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Clarendon<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 2,412<\/td>\n | 05759<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Proctor<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 1,763<\/td>\n | 05765<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Killington<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 1,407<\/td>\n | 05751<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Mount Holly<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 1,385<\/td>\n | 05758<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Pawlet<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 1,424<\/td>\n | 05761<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Wells<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 1,214<\/td>\n | 05774<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Chittenden<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 1,237<\/td>\n | 05737<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Danby<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 1,284<\/td>\n | 05739<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Mendon<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 1,149<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Shrewsbury<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 1,096<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Middletown Springs<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 794<\/td>\n | 05757<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Benson<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 974<\/td>\n | 05731<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Hubbardton<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 735<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Pittsfield<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 504<\/td>\n | 05762<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Tinmouth<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 553<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Sudbury<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 545<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| West Haven<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 239<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Mount Tabor<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 210<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Ira<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 368<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| East Poultney<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 05741<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| North Clarendon<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 05759<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| West Pawlet<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 05775<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Castleton Four Corners<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Cuttingsville<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 05738<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Bomoseen<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 05732<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Belmont<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 05730<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Center Rutland<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 05736<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Florence<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 05744<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Hydeville<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 05750<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| East Wallingford<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 05742<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Forest Dale<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 05745<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n Two entries on this list share almost the same name. Rutland City is an independent municipality with its own government, surrounded on three sides by Rutland (town), a separate town that elects its own selectboard and is not part of the city. West Rutland and Center Rutland add to the confusion — West Rutland is its own incorporated town southwest of the city, while Center Rutland is an unincorporated village inside Rutland town itself, not a subdivision of the city. Poultney village, incorporated within Poultney town in 1904, is counted in the town’s population above rather than listed separately.<\/p>\n ZIP Codes<\/h2>\nMendon, Ira, Sudbury, Tinmouth, Hubbardton, Mount Tabor, West Haven and Rutland (town) have no ZIP code of their own; mail there is delivered under a neighboring town’s code, most often Rutland’s 05701.<\/p>\n Geography<\/h2>\nRutland County straddles two mountain ranges: the Green Mountains along its eastern edge, where Killington Peak rises 4,229 feet, and the Taconic Mountains along its western border with New York. Otter Creek runs north through the middle of the county, past Rutland and Pittsford, on its way toward Lake Champlain. Of the county’s 945 square miles, 930 are land and 15 are water, about 1.6 percent — most of it in Lake Bomoseen, Vermont’s largest lake entirely within its borders, in the town of Castleton.<\/p>\n Addison County lies to the north, Windsor County to the east, Bennington County to the south, and Washington County, New York, across the Taconics to the west. Addison County<\/a>, Windsor County<\/a>, Bennington County<\/a> and Washington County, New York<\/a> all border Rutland directly.<\/p>\n Rutland County had a population of 60,572 at the 2020 census. Rutland City and Castleton are the two largest communities, together home to roughly a third of the county’s residents. Median household income runs $68,616 (Data USA, 2024), below Vermont’s statewide figure of $81,211 (2023 ACS). Population density works out to about 65 people per square mile of land, concentrated around Rutland City and thinning out sharply toward the Green Mountain towns in the east.<\/p>\n Health care and social assistance employs the most workers in the county, about 4,332 people, followed by retail trade at 3,831 and educational services at 3,404. Rutland Regional Medical Center is the largest single employer. Casella Waste Systems, a national waste-management company, is headquartered in Rutland town. OMYA, a Swiss mineral-processing company, runs its North American headquarters and a calcium-carbonate plant in Proctor, on ground once worked by the Vermont Marble Company. Killington Resort, the largest ski area in the eastern United States, is the county’s biggest tourism draw and a major seasonal employer spanning Killington and Mendon. Castleton University, a public college in Castleton, anchors the county’s other higher-education presence. The Vermont State Fair, held in Rutland City each summer, is the county’s biggest annual event.<\/p>\n The Vermont legislature organized Rutland County on 16 February 1781. Rutland itself was chartered in 1761 under a New Hampshire land grant and named for John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland; the city incorporated separately from the surrounding town on 18 November 1892. The railroad’s arrival in Rutland in 1851 turned a marble deposit found in the 1830s near West Rutland into a global industry — Rutland became one of the world’s leading marble producers once Italian Carrara quarries grew too deep to work economically. The marble quarries around Proctor and West Rutland closed through the 1980s and 1990s, costing the area many jobs. In 1894, the county recorded the first documented polio outbreak in the United States; within weeks, 132 people, mostly children, were paralyzed. Killington Resort opened on 13 December 1958 and grew into the largest ski area in the eastern United States.<\/p>\n US Route 7 runs north-south through Rutland, connecting Manchester and Bennington to the south with Middlebury and Burlington to the north. US Route 4 crosses east-west, running through Killington toward White River Junction and New Hampshire, and west as a four-lane freeway to the New York state line, 18 miles away.<\/p>\n Rutland–Southern Vermont Regional Airport, on the city’s east side, has Cape Air flights to Boston. Albany International Airport and Burlington International Airport, both roughly 70 miles away, are the nearest larger commercial airports. Amtrak’s Ethan Allen Express stops at the Rutland station, running direct to New York City in about 5.5 hours.<\/p>\n Where is Rutland County located?<\/strong> What is the population of Rutland County?<\/strong> How big is Rutland County?<\/strong> What is the county seat of Rutland County?<\/strong> How many towns are in Rutland County?<\/strong> What ZIP codes does Rutland County use?<\/strong> |