Burlington, VT
Community Profile
Burlington's demographic baseline — the reference against which every report on this dashboard is evaluated for representativeness.
ACS 2020–2024 5-year estimates · Last verified April 18, 2026 · Sample: representative
9,479 of 47,743 voting-age residents registered. Goal: every resident has a voice.
About this profile
How representativeness is measured.
Burlington’s demographic baseline — drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 5-year estimates — is the reference against which every report on the dashboard is evaluated. Each report’s respondents are compared to the city’s actual demographic mix; the closer the two, the more representative the report. Names, addresses, and identifying details are never published. Demographic data is aggregated from anonymized resident profiles only.
Representativeness
How closely the latest 90-day report's respondents reflect Burlington's actual demographics.
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Average closeness across four demographic axes — age, gender, race, and neighborhoods — between Burlington’s actual residents and the 4,312 respondents in the latest 90-day report. Higher is more representative. The score reflects the latest report only — not the entire registered list.
Demographic representativeness
Where the latest 90-day report's respondents over- or under-represent Burlington's actual residents — broken down by axis.
Bar = respondentsTick = community baseline
Age
How Burlington's adult population is distributed by age, and how well respondents in the latest report match that distribution.
Gender
How Burlington's adult population is distributed by gender, and how well respondents in the latest report match that distribution.
Census data does not enumerate nonbinary identity directly. The 1% baseline is an approximation drawn from auxiliary surveys; the response figure reflects respondents who self-identified.
Race & Ethnicity
How Burlington's adult population is distributed by race and ethnicity, and how well respondents in the latest report match that distribution.
Census racial and ethnic categories do not capture the full texture of identity. Where respondents self-described in ways the Census does not enumerate, we mapped responses to the closest category and surface those self-descriptions inside individual quote cards.
Neighborhoods
How Burlington's adult population is distributed across the eight wards, and how well respondents in the latest report match that distribution.
Demographic data is aggregated from anonymized resident profiles. Personally identifying information — name, address, contact details — lives in a separate database, linked to the public profile only by a one-way hash. No personally identifying detail is ever published.
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