A market with no active rental pool to price against. The sale-side figures below are the whole picture.
What would change this read: the median listing price is −17.6% YoY. inventory, −11.8% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 17.6% YoY while the median home got down 21.3% bigger, so value per square foot is down 1.6%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 06706 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 59.2% of this ZIP's 5,506 occupied households, on a median household income of $52K.
| Measure | ZIP 06706 | Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $52K | $86K | -$34K |
| Below Poverty Level | 25.6% | 11.2% | +14.4% |
| Median Age | 36.10 | 41.80 | -5.70 |
| Total Population | 15,551 | 454,969 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.81 | 2.49 | +0.32 |
| Owner-Occupied | 40.8% | 68.6% | -27.7% |
| Worked From Home | 6.4% | 12.7% | -6.3% |
| Mean Commute | 25.60 | 28.30 | -2.70 |
Higher or lower is not itself good or bad — it describes the neighborhood, not the investment.
ZIP-level figures come from ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP codes. A missing value is suppressed or unavailable at this sample size, not zero. Estimates for 2019–2020 use the 2010 ZCTA boundaries and 2021–2024 the 2020 ones, so a step between those two years may be a boundary change rather than real movement.
County population is up 0.6% to 454,969: residents under 18 are down 0.0% and those 65 and over are up 3.1%.
County median household income is $86K, 11.2% of residents are below the poverty level, 12.7% work from home.