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A tight-supply market with no rental pool to price against. Demand is visible here; the rent math is not.
What would change this read: the median listing price is −2.0% YoY. inventory, −3.9% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 2.0% YoY while the median home got down 6.5% bigger, so value per square foot is up 6.2%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 06811 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 22.7% of this ZIP's 11,802 occupied households, on a median household income of $105K.
| Measure | ZIP 06811 | Western Connecticut Planning Region | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $105K | $128K | -$24K |
| Below Poverty Level | 6.7% | 7.5% | -0.8% |
| Median Age | 45.10 | 41.50 | +3.60 |
| Total Population | 31,228 | 627,071 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.49 | 2.63 | -0.14 |
| Owner-Occupied | 77.3% | 66.4% | +10.9% |
| Worked From Home | 17.1% | 21.5% | -4.4% |
| Mean Commute | 29.50 | 30.80 | -1.30 |
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 0.9% to 627,071: residents under 18 are up 0.1% and those 65 and over are up 3.3%.
County median household income is $128K, 7.5% of residents are below the poverty level, 21.5% work from home.