Zip lookup · CT

06409
Essex, Connecticut.

Essex, Middlesex County, CT · Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT metro · population 701

What it costs per month · 06409 $2,649/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,518 (+134%) since Feb 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $12,021 +2%
$492,621$504,642 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $120,196 +31%
$384,446$504,642 since Sep 2021

Monthly payment to buy the typical home

Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 06409 $2,649 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 06409$2,649
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.

Typical home values in zip 06409 rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Essex, CT — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Typical home value $504,642 as of Sep 2026
+2.4%year on year

Typical home value — 06409

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$300,000 $400,000 $500,000 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 06409 $504,642 Hartford $398,703 United States $366,157
$300,000 $400,000 $500,000 2020 2022 2024 2026
  • 06409$504,642
  • Hartford$398,703
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 41 zips in range — sorting picks from all 41.

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1.2 06426 Essex 3,267 — $768,232
1.4 06442 Ivoryton 2,826 — $547,934
2.5 06417 Deep River 4,458 — $440,989
3.9 06475 Old Saybrook 10,575 $2,767 $698,801
3.9 06498 Westbrook 6,856 — $583,836
5.0 06412 Chester 3,825 — $540,778
5.0 06371 Old Lyme 9,828 $2,725 $695,940
6.8 06413 Clinton 13,377 $2,467 $469,047
8.1 06423 East Haddam 5,182 — $468,214
8.4 06419 Killingworth 6,240 — $632,150
8.4 06438 Haddam 2,887 — $474,219
9.4 06333 East Lyme 7,389 $2,671 $554,470
10.8 06443 Madison 17,657 $3,574 $721,119
10.8 06357 Niantic 11,332 $2,683 $524,711
10.9 06469 Moodus 3,311 — $401,291
11.5 06441 Higganum 5,348 — $500,721
12.2 06420 Salem 4,368 — $476,784
13.7 06385 Waterford 15,966 $2,197 $439,935
14.4 06370 Oakdale 7,327 — $400,873
14.6 06437 Guilford 22,067 $2,992 $635,505
14.6 06415 Colchester 16,038 — $444,853
15.0 06424 East Hampton 12,751 — $433,885
15.6 06422 Durham 7,208 — $508,122
15.7 06375 Quaker Hill 3,670 — $401,791
16.1 11939 East Marion 1,331 — $1,187,307
16.2 11957 Orient 1,121 — $1,524,532
16.5 06320 New London 27,703 $1,700 $327,598
17.4 06382 Uncasville 10,143 — $347,177
17.6 11944 Greenport 5,037 — $951,386
18.2 06457 Middletown 46,720 $1,962 $365,655

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.