West Rutland is the central village and a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of West Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 1,898, out of 2,214 in the entire town of West Rutland. The CDP is in central Rutland County, in the southern part of the town. It sits in a valley on the east side of the Taconic Mountains, drained to the east by the Clarendon River, a tributary of Otter Creek, and to the west by the Castleton River, a tributary of the Poultney River. Both sets of rivers eventually flow to Lake Champlain. U.S. Route 4, a four-lane expressway, passes south of the village center, with access from Exit 6. Route 4 leads east 4 mi to U.S. Route 7 on the south side of Rutland and west 13 mi to Fair Haven. Vermont Route 4A, former US 4, is Main Street through West Rutland; it leads east 4 mi to downtown Rutland and west 7 mi to Castleton. Vermont Route 133 (Clarendon Avenue) leads south from the center of West Rutland 11 mi to Middletown Springs.