Vermont Ski-Town Population Slides on ‘Bad Times,’ Census Shows
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Business leaders in Vermont’s Deerfield Valley promote the area with the slogan “It’s More Vermont Here.” Trouble is, there are fewer Vermonters. Dover, the heart of the valley and home to one of the closest ski resorts to New York and Boston, lost a fifth of its population over the last decade.
Battered by a collapse in the second-home market and a slow tourist economy, residents fled southern Vermont’s ski region from 2000 to 2010, census figures show. Three other resort towns -- Killington, Ludlow and Wilmington -- collectively lost 1,119 residents, or 19.4 percent of their population, even as the state gained 2.8 percent to 625,741.