[3] As of the 2010 census, the population of the CDP was 179,[4] compared to 1,367 for the entire town of Cavendish.

Cavendish is the site of the 1848 accident where Phineas Gage got an iron rod shot through his skull while preparing a railroad bed.

[5] The town is also the birthplace of Nettie Stevens, the scientist who discovered the Y chromosome.

[6] Today, the village is home to Cavendish Labs, an AI alignment and pandemic prevention research institute, as well as a branch of Mack Molding.

[7][8] Cavendish is located along Vermont Route 131 in the Black River valley.