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 2023, an average of 66 of AHW’s 354 apartments (19%) were occupied by formerly homeless households.
- 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.
