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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 +51.2% YoY. inventory, +50.0% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 51.2% YoY while the median home got down 20.8% bigger, so value per square foot is up 75.3%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 06853 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 11.9% of this ZIP's 1,250 occupied households, on a median household income of $250K.
| Measure | ZIP 06853 | Western Connecticut Planning Region | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $250K | $128K | +$122K |
| Below Poverty Level | 1.7% | 7.5% | -5.8% |
| Median Age | 45.60 | 41.50 | +4.10 |
| Total Population | 3,171 | 627,071 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.54 | 2.63 | -0.09 |
| Owner-Occupied | 88.1% | 66.4% | +21.7% |
| Worked From Home | 29.2% | 21.5% | +7.7% |
| Mean Commute | 41.20 | 30.80 | +10.40 |
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.