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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 +11.5% YoY. inventory, −1.3% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 11.5% YoY while the median home got down 18.5% bigger, so value per square foot is up 13.3%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 06851 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 38.4% of this ZIP's 11,348 occupied households, on a median household income of $111K.
| Measure | ZIP 06851 | Western Connecticut Planning Region | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $111K | $128K | -$17K |
| Below Poverty Level | 8.1% | 7.5% | +0.6% |
| Median Age | 43.20 | 41.50 | +1.70 |
| Total Population | 27,865 | 627,071 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.43 | 2.63 | -0.20 |
| Owner-Occupied | 61.6% | 66.4% | -4.8% |
| Worked From Home | 17.6% | 21.5% | -3.9% |
| Mean Commute | 28.40 | 30.80 | -2.40 |
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.