Essex Junction, Vermont

Essex Junction population, 2020 to 2024

Essex Junction added 200 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.9%. In the latest year it moved by -75. Among 8 Vermont places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 4th; the median place changed by +0.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Vermont has 9,579 people, so Essex Junction is 1.1 times that size.

Essex Junction covers 4.57 square miles of land and 0.19 of water, for 2,360 people per square mile of land. The median Vermont place of 5,000+ has 2,221, so Essex Junction is close to the typical town.

What county Essex Junction is in

All of Essex Junction's residents live in Chittenden County, which had 170,851 residents in 2024. Essex Junction holds 6.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Essex Junction

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Essex Junction by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 05452. 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 Essex Junction is

The Census internal point of Essex Junction is at 44.490300, -73.114100. Montpelier, the capital, is 30.7 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is South Burlington, VT (21,713 people), 5.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Albany, NY, 130.6 miles away.

Daylight in Essex Junction

At 44.49° N, Essex Junction gets about 15 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 50 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Essex Junction

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Vermont, measured between internal points. The closest is Winooski, 3.5 miles away, with 8,370 people.