Historical U.S. Census totals for Bennington County, Vermont

This article shows U.S. Census totals for Bennington County, Vermont, broken down by municipality, from 1900 to 2000.

Most areas of New England are entirely divided into incorporated municipalities, with no unincorporated territory. In the three northern New England states, however, some unincorporated territory does exist, generally in areas that are very sparsely populated. Bennington County contains a small amount of unincorporated territory, one of four counties in Vermont to have such areas. The unincorporated territory in Bennington County consists of a tract measuring about 44 square miles (110 km2), in a remote area of the Green Mountains on the county’s eastern edge. This area was once incorporated as the town of Glastenbury, and is still sometimes referred to as “Glastenbury Township”. Glastenbury disincorporated in 1937 due to population loss; its population has reached double figures in only one census since 1920. Except for Glastenbury, all of Bennington County is incorporated.

There are three types of incorporated municipalities in Vermont: towns, cities and villages. As in the other New England states, towns are the basic unit of municipal government. Cities are independent of and equivalent to towns, but differ in their form of government. Villages overlay towns and assume responsibility for some municipal services within their boundaries. Incorporated villages are not found in any of the other New England states, and are less common in Vermont today than they have been in the past. A number of villages have disincorporated over the years, choosing to revert to full town control; most of those that remain are very small.

The main tables below show municipalities at the town level. The tables in the New England Historical U.S. Census Totals series differentiate between towns and cities; however, there have never been any cities in Bennington County. For any census, adding up the totals for each town-level municipality, including Glastenbury, should yield the county total. (Note that, for censuses up through 1930, Glastenbury was an incorporated town. In that era, Bennington County was entirely divided into incorporated municipalities, following the standard procedure in New England.) A separate section follows with population totals for villages from 1930 to 2000.

For more information on the New England municipal system, see New England town.

Corporate changes since 1900

1900

County Total: 21,705

1910

County Total: 21,378

1920

County Total: 21,577

1930

County Total: 21,655

1940

County Total: 22,286

Unorganized territory (the former town of Glastenbury) reported 4 residents.

1950

County Total: 24,115

Unorganized territory (the former town of Glastenbury) reported 1 resident.

1960

County Total: 25,088

Unorganized territory (the former town of Glastenbury) reported no residents.

1970

County Total: 29,282

Unorganized territory (the former town of Glastenbury) reported no residents.

1980

County Total: 33,345

Unorganized territory (the former town of Glastenbury) reported 3 residents.

1990

County Total: 35,845

Unorganized territory (the former town of Glastenbury) reported 7 residents.

2000

County Total: 36,994

Unorganized territory (the former town of Glastenbury) reported 16 residents.

Villages

This section lists census totals for incorporated villages for 1930 through 2000.

As of 1930, Bennington County contained five incorporated villages:

The village of Bennington disincorporated in 1970, and the village of Readsboro disincorporated in 1986.

Note: complete data for 1900, 1910 and 1920 are not available, but the population of the village of Bennington was 5,656 in 1900, 6,211 in 1910, and 7,230 in 1920.

1930

1940

1950

1960

1970

1980

1990

2000

Notes

2000 Census

The Census Bureau made a number of revisions to 2000 census totals subsequent to their initial release. The 2000 total for the town of Manchester was originally reported as 4,180; and for the town of Readsboro, 809. The totals were later revised to those shown in the list above. This was apparently done to correct an assignment error between the two towns; the collective population of the two is the same using either set of figures, so the county total was not affected.

See also

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