A “healthy” housing vacancy rate in a given housing market is generally around 3%. Currently, Addison County’s vacancy rate hovers around 1%.
- There are currently a total of 511 affordable housing units in Addison County, with a waitlist approaching 200+ households.
- On average, Addison Housing Works (AHW) has approximately 40 apartments that become available in a given year, and they receive, on average, about 350-400 applications for housing annually.
- Over the course of 2024, an average of 75 of AHW’s 354 apartments (23%) were occupied by formerly homeless households—an increase of nine households. We had 41 units become available, and leased 18 units to formerly homeless households. We received a total of 438 applications for rental housing, with 39% of those from households experiencing homelessness and many more at risk of homelessness. As of March 2025, there were 215 households on the waitlist for rental housing, with an average income of approximately $25,000/yr—about what a full-time minimum wage worker would earn in a year if they worked 35 hours per week.
- Helen Porter Rehabilitation and Nursing is the only Skilled Nursing Facility in Addison County.
- Helen Porter maintains a waitlist for the Long Term Care unit and Memory Care unit.
- Currently, there are about 12 individual inpatients at UVM Porter who need nursing home-level care with no placements available in the county or state.
- 2021 contacts to VT 2-1-1 (the number for United Way resources/referrals) in Addison County were overwhelmingly and consistently for assistance with and referrals to housing providers: With the exception of general “information services” referral requests, housing requests were more than three-fold greater than any other contact category in any given month.
