Municipalities of Vermont
Category	Municipality
Location	State of Vermont
Found in	County
Created	1735 (Westminster)
Number	247
Populations	70 (Victory) – 44,743 (Burlington)
Areas	1.5 square miles (3.9 km2) (Winooski) – 73.8 square miles (191 km2) (Chittenden)
Government	Council–manager Town meeting Mayor–council Select Board
Subdivisions	Village Neighborhood

The U.S. state ofVermont is divided into 247municipalities, including 237towns and 10cities. Vermont also has nine unincorporated areas, split between five unincorporated towns and fourgores. As of 2024, Vermont has 30 incorporated villages, which are municipal governments operating within a town and providing additional services.

Cities in Vermont are municipalities with the city form of government. Vermont has ten cities with a combined area of 80.2 sq mi (208 km²), or 0.8% of the state's total area.^{[citation needed]}

According to the 2020 census, 119,299 people, or 18.54% of the state's population, resided in Vermont's cities (excludingEssex Junction, which incorporated in 2022). Six of Vermont's 14counties have at least one city within their borders. Five cities serve as thecounty seats for their respective counties and are indicated below with an asterisk (*).

Towns in Vermont are municipalities that typically incorporate the town meeting format into their government

In some cases, a town and city have the same name, such asBarre City which is almost entirely surrounded by the separate municipality ofBarre Town.

Unincorporated towns in Vermont are towns that had their charters revoked by theVermont legislature or never formally organized due to lack of residents. Towns in name only, their affairs are managed by a state-appointed supervisor and not by a local government.

Gores in Vermont are seen as anunincorporated area of acounty that is not part of anytown, has limited self-government, and may be unpopulated. Vermont has four current gores.

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In the U.S. state ofVermont,villages are named communities located within the boundaries of a town. Villages may beincorporated orunincorporated.

An incorporated village is a defined area within a town that was either granted a village charter by a special act of the legislature, or organized under the general legislation. A village which has been incorporated is a clearly defined municipality and provides a variety of municipal services, such aspotable water, sewage,police andfire services,garbage collection,street lighting and maintenance, management ofcemeteries, andbuilding code enforcement. Other municipal services not provided by the village are provided by the parent town. Incorporated villages in Vermont are administratively similar tovillages in New York. Vermont is the only state inNew England that has incorporated villages.

As of 2024, there are 30 incorporated villages with active governments in Vermont. Historically, there were more but most have since disincorporated, while others were chartered as cities. Below is a list of incorporated villages that have existed, ordered by date of incorporation.

• List of counties in Vermont
• List of census-designated places in Vermont
• List of gores in Vermont
• Vermont 251 Club – an organization whose members try to visit every town in Vermont.

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911)."Vermont" .Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1027. "Any community containing thirty or more houses may, with the approval of the selectmen of the town, receive a separate village organization. Their officials are a clerk, five trustees, a collector of taxes and a treasurer".
• E. T. Howe, "Vermont Incorporated Villages: A Vanishing Institution",Vermont History73, 16 (2005).
• J .S. Garland,New England town law: a digest of statutes and decisions concerning towns and town officers, Boston Book Co., Boston, 1906.
• D. G. Sanford,Vermont Municipalities: an index to their charters and special acts, (Vermont Office of Secretary of State, 1986).
• U.S. Census Bureau, Census of population, data for 1930–2000.
• Vermont Secretary of State, "List of Incorporated Villages"
• "Continuing Issues:Villages and cities".Vermont State Archives. Vermont Secretary of State. Archived from the original on September 25, 2007. RetrievedNovember 12, 2007.
• Vermont Statutes Online,Title 24 and24 Appendix

• vt251.com A companion website for theVermont 251 Club.

• Incorporated villages in Vermont
• Cities in Vermont
• Towns in Vermont
• Lists of cities in the United States by state
• Lists of towns in the United States
• Local government in Vermont
• Vermont geography-related lists

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