Official Name: | West Rutland, Vermont |
Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
Pushpin Map: | Vermont#USA |
Pushpin Label: | West Rutland |
Coordinates: | 43.5931°N -73.0456°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Vermont |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Rutland |
Subdivision Type3: | Town |
Subdivision Name3: | West Rutland |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 9.57 |
Area Land Km2: | 9.52 |
Area Water Km2: | 0.05 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population: | 1898 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 498 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code |
Postal Code: | 05777 |
Area Code: | 802 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 50-82375 |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 2378138 |
West Rutland is the central village and a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of West Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 1,898,[2] out of 2,214 in the entire town of West Rutland.
The CDP is in central Rutland County, in the southern part of the town. It sits in a valley on the east side of the Taconic Mountains, drained to the east by the Clarendon River, a tributary of Otter Creek, and to the west by the Castleton River, a tributary of the Poultney River. Both sets of rivers eventually flow to Lake Champlain.
U.S. Route 4, a four-lane expressway, passes south of the village center, with access from Exit 6. Route 4 leads east 4miles to U.S. Route 7 on the south side of Rutland and west to Fair Haven. Vermont Route 4A, former US 4, is Main Street through West Rutland; it leads east 4miles to downtown Rutland and west 7miles to Castleton. Vermont Route 133 (Clarendon Avenue) leads south from the center of West Rutland to Middletown Springs.