Compare Vermont sheriff department costs
Sheriff department cost and staffing across all 14 counties. Click a column header to sort. Hover a column header to see what it measures. Data as of 2026-07-24.
| County | Population | Budget | $/resident | Sworn / 100k res | Custody / 100k res | Beds / 100k res |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addison County | 37,434 | — | — | 2.7 | 0.0 | — |
| Bennington County | 37,326 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Caledonia County | 30,418 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Chittenden County | 168,309 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Essex County | 5,976 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Franklin County | 50,101 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grand Isle County | 7,335 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lamoille County | 25,977 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Orange County | 29,439 | — | — | 0.0 | 0.0 | — |
| Orleans County | 27,459 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Rutland County | 60,585 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Washington County | 59,768 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Windham County | 45,857 | — | — | 0.0 | 0.0 | — |
| Windsor County | 57,832 | — | — | — | — | — |
A note on data vintages and definitions. Population is the US Census Bureau's 2018-2022 American Community Survey 5-year estimate. Sheriff staffing comes from the US Census Bureau's Census of Governments - Employment 2022 (March reference period); headcount equals full-time plus part-time positions across function codes 062 (sworn law enforcement), 162 (civilian law enforcement), and 005 (corrections). The Census publishes no true full-time-equivalent figures, and the March payroll snapshot is not directly comparable to a full annual operating budget. Vermont has no county jails to report: the state closed its county jails and unified corrections under the Vermont Department of Corrections in the 1970s, and the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics excludes Vermont, along with six other states, entirely from its Census of Jails; no jail dataset applies to Vermont's county pages on this site. Sheriff department budget data has not yet been loaded for Vermont. Sheriff names were collected from the Vermont Sheriffs' Association and machine-verified against county sources in July 2026; all 14 counties are named.