Compare with
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 −14.4% YoY. inventory, −3.3% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 14.4% YoY while the median home got down 21.3% bigger, so value per square foot is up 11.8%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 06854 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 52.9% of this ZIP's 11,769 occupied households, on a median household income of $87K.
| Measure | ZIP 06854 | Western Connecticut Planning Region | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $87K | $128K | -$42K |
| Below Poverty Level | 12.5% | 7.5% | +5.0% |
| Median Age | 37.70 | 41.50 | -3.80 |
| Total Population | 32,118 | 627,071 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.72 | 2.63 | +0.09 |
| Owner-Occupied | 47.1% | 66.4% | -19.4% |
| Worked From Home | 10.4% | 21.5% | -11.1% |
| Mean Commute | 25.80 | 30.80 | -5.00 |
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.