Barre, Vermont

Barre population, 2020 to 2024

Barre lost 174 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.1%. In the latest year it moved by -101. Among 8 Vermont places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 8th; the median place changed by +0.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Vermont has 9,579 people, so Barre is 87% of it.

Barre covers 3.99 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 2,081 people per square mile of land. The median Vermont place of 5,000+ has 2,221, so Barre is close to the typical town.

What county Barre is in

All of Barre's residents live in Washington County, which had 59,844 residents in 2024. Barre holds 13.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Barre

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Barre by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 05641. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Barre is

The Census internal point of Barre is at 44.199100, -72.508000. Montpelier, the capital, is 5.7 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Essex Junction, VT (10,787 people), 36.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Manchester, NH, 99.4 miles away.

Daylight in Barre

At 44.20° N, Barre gets about 15 h 31 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 39 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Barre

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Vermont, measured between internal points. The closest is Montpelier, 5.6 miles away, with 7,915 people.