Census-designated place · Rutland County, Vermont

Proctor, Vermont

Proctor is a census-designated place in Rutland County, Vermont, part of the Rutland, VT metro area. It has 1,586 residents. Proctor, Vermont has a quality-of-life score of 77 out of 100 (high), ranking #3,594 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Vermont it ranks #29 of 51 cities and towns. It ranks best on high school diploma or higher (high), public libraries (high) and grocery stores (high). It ranks worst on child care cost burden (high), firearm deaths (high) and comfortable days (low).

77High

Quality-of-life score: #3,594 of 15,651 cities and towns
Vermont: #29 of 51 in VT
Population: 1,586 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 431.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 5057246

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety30#10,995/15,637
Economy53#7,315/15,631
Housing48#7,824/14,977
Health32#10,608/15,609
Healthcare84#2,574/15,650
Environment95#817/15,453
Education91#1,366/15,649
Infrastructure66#5,291/15,650
Community74#4,037/15,651
Leisure & amenities88#1,811/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Proctor, Vermont ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Rutland County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

High school diploma or higher · high98.1%
98/100Vermont 94.9%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Public libraries · high3.5 /10k
97/100Vermont 2.9 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesRutland County value
Grocery stores · high3.5 /10k
97/100Vermont 3.0 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsRutland County value
Hot days · low1 days
95/100Vermont 2 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationRutland County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · low6 mi
93/100Vermont 11 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauRutland County value
Public EV charging ports · high17.6 /10k
93/100Vermont 20.8 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyRutland County value

Weaknesses

Child care cost burden · high50.1%
1/100Vermont 50.1%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRutland County value
Firearm deaths · high28.2 /100k
3/100Vermont 13.7 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataRutland County value
Comfortable days · low22.0%
3/100Vermont 21.6%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationRutland County value
Suicide rate · high26.5 /100k
7/100Vermont 21.6 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataRutland County value
Depression · high28.5%
8/100Vermont 27.8%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Injury deaths · high132 /100k
9/100Vermont 105 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRutland County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
1,386 (2016-2020) → 1,586 (2020-2024)
+14%4 yearsCensus table B01003US 331,578,104 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
22.2% (2016-2020) → 39.4% (2020-2024)
+17 pts4 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.1% → 51.1%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
32.7% (2016-2020) → 28.0% (2020-2024)
−4.7 pts4 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.9% → 35.7%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
85.3% (2016-2020) → 89.9% (2020-2024)
+4.6 pts4 yearsCensus table B28002US 85.2% → 91.0%
Poverty rateWorsening
5.4% (2016-2020) → 10.0% (2020-2024)
+4.6 pts4 yearsCensus table B17001US 11.9% → 12.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
22.1% (2016-2020) → 25.8% (2020-2024)
+3.7 pts4 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.6% → 30.6%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

There is not enough history to compare Proctor, Vermont over five years.

Cities and towns like Proctor, Vermont five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Proctor, Vermont in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

No place that looked like Proctor, Vermont five years ago has more measures that improved than declined, with a higher standing among its peers today.

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,586 residents (±279)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,586 residents (±279)

Proctor, Vermont
Vermont share

White93%1,472
Black0.0%0
Hispanic or Latino0.0%0
Asian

Education

1,196 residents (±171)

Proctor, Vermont
Vermont share

No high school diploma1.9%†23
High school or GED35%413
Some college23%†280

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

643 households (±70)

Proctor, Vermont
Vermont share

Under $25k14%†92
$25k–50k18%†116
$50k–75k18%†113
$75k–100k17%†110
$100k–150k15%†96
$150k–200k13%†85
$200k or more4.8%†31

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

643 households (±70)

Proctor, Vermont
Vermont share

Own86%555
Rent14%†88

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

74 households (±30)

Proctor, Vermont
Vermont share

Under $7506.8%†5
$750–1,00038%†28
$1,000–1,50031%†23

Home values

555 homes (±69)

Proctor, Vermont
Vermont share

Under $150k17%†97
$150k–250k53%295
$250k–400k23%†128

Age of homes

708 homes (±60)

Proctor, Vermont
Vermont share

2010 or later0.0%0
2000–20090.4%†3
1980–19995.9%†42

Size of homes

708 homes (±60)

Proctor, Vermont
Vermont share

Studio4.1%†29
1 bedroom3.1%†22
2 bedrooms12%†84

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

758 workers (±117)

Proctor, Vermont
Vermont share

Drive alone82%620
Carpool6.2%†47
Public transit0.5%†4
Walk0.3%†2
Bike0.0%0
Work from home10%†76
Other1.2%†9

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

682 workers (±119)

Proctor, Vermont
Vermont share

Under 15 min21%†141
15–29 min54%370
30–44 min15%†102

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Rutland, VT

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Rutland County, the county holding most of Proctor's residents.

Rutland County has 1,945 employer establishments, 322 for every 10,000 residents (1.30× the US rate of 248; 1.00× Vermont's), with 22,482 paid employees at an average annual pay of $49,879. The Census Bureau also counts 5,208 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,945; 5,208 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 322; US 248 · Vermont 322
Paid employees: 22,482
Average annual pay: $49,879; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Rutland County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	200	33.1	2.14×More than typical	863	$62,524	583
Restaurants and other eating places	125	20.7	1.13×About typical	1,834	$23,010	22
Ambulatory health care services	110	18.2	0.87×About typical	1,423	$62,194	246
Construction of buildings	75	12.4	1.64×More than typical	462	$56,751	276
Services to buildings and dwellings	74	12.3	1.82×More than typical	281	$43,687	394
Building equipment contractors	68	11.3	1.87×More than typical	281	$56,875	102
Full-service restaurants	65	10.8	1.40×More than typical	998	$24,761	9
Building finishing contractors	55	9.1	2.40×More than typical	169	$47,893	226
Gasoline stations	53	8.8	2.71×More than typical	408	$31,064	—
Lessors of real estate	52	8.6	0.70×Fewer than typical	160	$48,750	566
Automotive repair and maintenance	50	8.3	1.65×More than typical	231	$40,766	62
Landscaping services	45	7.5	2.13×More than typical	165	$52,642	155

Rank places for an industry Open Rutland County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 60,356 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Proctor, Vermont: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

350.4FY2017
8.5KFY2019
0FY2020

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Proctor, Vermont, so they do not add up across cities.

Proctor, Vermont's figures are part of those of Rutland County, VT ($1.5M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Proctor is mostly in Rutland County.

See federal money in Rutland County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Proctor, Vermont is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Becca BalintD-VT · 100% of residentsWith party 100%Missed 1.2%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Rutland County82100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Rutland, VT76

Other cities and towns in Rutland County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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