As of 2024, Vermont has 30 incorporated villages, which are municipal governments operating within a town and providing additional services.

[citation needed] According to the 2020 census, 119,299 people, or 18.54% of the state's population, resided in Vermont's cities (excluding Essex Junction, which incorporated in 2022).

Gores in Vermont are seen as an unincorporated area of a county that is not part of any town, has limited self-government, and may be unpopulated.

In the U.S. state of Vermont, villages are named communities located within the boundaries of a town.

A village which has been incorporated is a clearly defined municipality and provides a variety of municipal services, such as potable water, sewage, police and fire services, garbage collection, street lighting and maintenance, management of cemeteries, and building code enforcement.