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 −4.1% YoY. inventory, −1.2% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 4.1% YoY while the median home got down 1.5% bigger, so value per square foot is down 0.5%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 06902 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 57.8% of this ZIP's 28,959 occupied households, on a median household income of $95K.
| Measure | ZIP 06902 | Western Connecticut Planning Region | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $95K | $128K | -$33K |
| Below Poverty Level | 12.0% | 7.5% | +4.5% |
| Median Age | 37.70 | 41.50 | -3.80 |
| Total Population | 73,392 | 627,071 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.51 | 2.63 | -0.12 |
| Owner-Occupied | 42.2% | 66.4% | -24.3% |
| Worked From Home | 15.6% | 21.5% | -5.9% |
| Mean Commute | 28.30 | 30.80 | -2.50 |
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.