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 +2.6% YoY. inventory, +19.3% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 2.6% YoY while the median home got down 19.7% bigger, so value per square foot is down 1.4%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 06905 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 37.6% of this ZIP's 8,503 occupied households, on a median household income of $137K.
| Measure | ZIP 06905 | Western Connecticut Planning Region | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $137K | $128K | +$9K |
| Below Poverty Level | 5.9% | 7.5% | -1.6% |
| Median Age | 41.30 | 41.50 | -0.20 |
| Total Population | 20,725 | 627,071 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.41 | 2.63 | -0.22 |
| Owner-Occupied | 62.4% | 66.4% | -4.1% |
| Worked From Home | 21.8% | 21.5% | +0.3% |
| Mean Commute | 27.40 | 30.80 | -3.40 |
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.