Pownal vs Pownal Center

A side-by-side comparison of Pownal and Pownal Center: population, income, housing, and more.

Pownal and Pownal Center are places in Vermont. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Pownal has the higher population (587 vs 475 in Pownal Center). Pownal Center has the higher median household income ($74,286 vs $55,156 in Pownal). Pownal Center has the higher median home value ($424,400 vs $215,900 in Pownal).

Population, income & housing

	Pownal	Pownal Center
Population	587	475
Median age	29.1 yrs	45.6 yrs
Median household income	$55,156	$74,286
Median home value	$215,900	$424,400
Housing units	172	257
Homeownership rate	93.6%	74.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher	4.2%	31.8%
Unemployment rate	16.9%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Pownal	Pownal Center
Population	666 → 587 (-11.9%)	614 → 475 (-22.6%)
Median household income	$56,771 → $55,156 (-2.8%)	$63,229 → $74,286 (+17.5%)
Median home value	—	$156,300 → $424,400 (+171.5%)

Pownal

Population

666587

Median household income

$56,771$55,156

Pownal Center

Population

614475

Median household income

$63,229$74,286

Median home value

$156,300$424,400

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Pownal	Pownal Center
Under 5	7.0%	2.9%
5 to 17	11.8%	21.5%
18 to 24	28.3%	0.0%
25 to 34	5.3%	0.0%
35 to 44	14.7%	18.1%
45 to 54	9.0%	31.2%
55 to 64	1.9%	4.2%
65 to 74	7.8%	16.6%
75 and over	14.3%	5.5%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Pownal	Pownal Center
White (non-Hispanic)	84.8%	97.1%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	6.3%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.3%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	8.5%	2.9%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Pownal	Pownal Center
No high school diploma	13.8%	0.0%
High school graduate	46.6%	40.7%
Some college or associate's	35.4%	27.6%
Bachelor's degree	4.2%	19.5%
Graduate or professional degree	0.0%	12.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Pownal	Pownal Center
Drove alone	77.9%	68.7%
Carpooled	0.0%	20.4%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	6.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	22.1%	4.9%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Pownal	Pownal Center
1-unit, detached	48.8%	62.6%
1-unit, attached	8.7%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	6.4%	4.3%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	36.0%	33.1%

Poverty & households

	Pownal	Pownal Center
Poverty rate	21.6%	6.7%
Average household size	3.38	2.55
Mean commute (minutes)	22	29
Median year structure built	1969	1966