The People
According to the 2000 census, Vermont had an increase inpopulation of 46,069—or 8.2 per cent—since 1990. Before 1960, there was little or no growth in population for more than a century. Vermont's rank among states fell from 48th in 1990 to 49th in 2000 (only Wyoming had fewer people in 2000).
The overall population density of Vermont in 2000 was 65.8 persons per square mile of land (25.4 per km2), slightly less than that of the United States as a whole. This was a slight increase from 1990. Virtually all the people in the state of Vermont (96.8 per cent) were white. Asians made up the largest minority, followed by blacks and American Indians.
| Annual events in Vermont | |||
| January-June | |||
| Stowe Winter Carnival (January); Town Meeting Day, statewide (first Tuesday in March); Vermont Maple Festival in St. Albans (April); Vermont Dairy Festival in Enosburg Falls (June); Antique Gas and Steam Engine Show in Brownington (June). | |||
| July-November | |||
| Old-Time Fiddlers Contest in Hardwick (July); Vermont Quilt Festival in Northfield (July); Arts Festival on the Green in Middlebury (July); Vermont Mozart Festival in Burlington (July-August); Fairs in Barton, Bradford, Essex Junction, Lyndonville, Rutland, and Tunbridge (July to September); Foliage Festivals, statewide (September to October). | |||
