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Chester CDP, Vermont: commercial real estate data.
Chester CDP is a Census CDP of 1,298 people across 1.64 square miles of land, in Windsor County. Median household income is $64,265, 71.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 7 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.2 m.
66 sourced place values · tier FULL · 7 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Chester
What Chester is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area1.64 sq mi
- Water area0.04 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land790 plus or minus 184
- County holding the largest share of its areaWindsor County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chester
How many people live in Chester
- Population1,298 plus or minus 303
- Median age33.9 plus or minus 7.8
- Population under 18292 plus or minus 116
- Share under 1822.5 percent plus or minus 7.2
- Population 65 and over245 plus or minus 102
- Share 65 and over18.9 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Households486 plus or minus 123
- Family households353 plus or minus 96
- Share of households that are families72.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chester
Income and work in Chester
- Median household income$64,265
- Per capita income$35,470 plus or minus $7,497
- Civilian labor force744 plus or minus 221
- Employed721 plus or minus 216
- Unemployed23 plus or minus 29
- Unemployment rate3.1 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Adults 25 and over861 plus or minus 203
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher100.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher43.0 percent plus or minus 13.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree22.3 percent plus or minus 11.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chester
Housing in Chester
- Housing units704 plus or minus 163
- Occupied units486 plus or minus 123
- Vacant units218 plus or minus 124
- Vacancy rate31.0 percent plus or minus 16.1
- Owner occupied347 plus or minus 95
- Renter occupied139 plus or minus 83
- Ownership rate71.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$261,900 plus or minus $103,082
- Median gross rent, monthly$959
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.9 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Single family units517 plus or minus 144
- Share single family73.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more174 plus or minus 108
- Share in buildings of two or more24.7 percent plus or minus 14.3
- Mobile homes13 plus or minus 21
- Median year structure built1938
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chester
How Chester gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute593 plus or minus 220
- Commuting under 15 minutes149 plus or minus 82
- Share commuting under 15 minutes25.1 percent plus or minus 10.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more301 plus or minus 159
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more50.8 percent plus or minus 19.1
- Drove alone72.9 percent plus or minus 16.7
- Carpooled8.1 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.8 percent plus or minus 2.5
- Worked from home10.8 percent plus or minus 5.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chester
SBA loans in Chester (7(a))
- Approvals7
- Gross approval$1,246,900
- Average approval$178,129
- Median approval$50,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$751,900
- Largest approval$751,900
- Jobs supported16
- Jobs per approval2.3
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full2
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more28.6 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders4
- Distinct industries by NAICS6
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 2 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Windsor County, not Chester
Windsor County context, not Chester figures
These are Windsor County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Chester measurements.
- Establishments in Windsor County1,926
- Employment at those establishments, Windsor County19,255
- Covered employment, Windsor County23,153
- Average annual pay, Windsor County$62,855
- Average weekly wage, Windsor County$1,209
- Housing units permitted, Windsor County344
- Of those, single family, Windsor County102
- County product, 2024, Windsor County$3,759,287,000
- County product change over the prior year, Windsor County3.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Windsor County$99,379
Every figure in this section is published for Windsor County as a whole and is not a measurement of Chester. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Chester questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Chester, Vermont?
1,298, in 486 households. Chester CDP covers 1.64 square miles of land, which is 790 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Chester in?
Windsor County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Chester?
$64,265. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $261,900. Median gross rent is $959 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Chester businesses?
7 7(a) approvals totalling $1.2 m, across 4 lenders, median approval $50,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Chester, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Chester borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Chester. only 2 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Chester figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Windsor County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Chester.
Is zoning published for Chester?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.