Mount Tabor, Vermont

Mount Tabor is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States.

As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 203 people, 92 households, and 56 families residing in the town.

35.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

About 7.3% of families and 10.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 14.9% of those under the age of eighteen and none of those 65 or over.

A 2018 study by Vermont Public Radio found that Mount Tabor issued over $2 million in traffic fines since the stretch of US Route 7 passing through the edge of Danby village was lowered to 45 miles per hour (72 km/h) in 1999, receiving $131,074 in traffic fine revenue in 2017, which works out to $524 per inhabitant, resulting in a municipal tax rate one-third what it was in 1999 and the highest percentage of town revenue derived from traffic fines in the state.

Map of Vermont highlighting Rutland County