The city of Essex Junction, with a population as of 2020 of 10,590, was located within the town as an incorporated village until 2022.

The village was formed to provide additional services (such as sidewalks, water, and sewers) to its residents.

As the town outside the village developed, it gradually added its own similar services, and by 1958, merger proposals appeared via voter petition.

Over the years, various votes (often contentious) regarding a merger occurred in the village and the town, but never passing in both communities.

Complicating the matter, the regional paper misreported the merger failed based solely on results outside the village.

The petition contained signatures totaling more than 5 percent of registered voters, the threshold required for a re-vote.

[11] Essex is located in central Chittenden County, bordered on the south by the Winooski River.

Neighboring municipalities are Colchester to the west, Milton at the northwest corner, Westford to the north, Underhill at the northeast corner, Jericho to the east, Williston to the south, and the cities of South Burlington and Essex Junction to the southwest.

The museum is housed in a former two-room schoolhouse, and includes a collection of costumes, school items, and local memorabilia.

[21] Previously, the three communities had separate Pre-K to grade 8 school districts that fed the already unified EHS.

However, further construction of the highway was halted in surrounding communities by court action from environmental protesters.

In 2008, a study indicated that the cheapest method for one person to get to New York City from the Burlington area was by train, at $48.