Ansonia, Connecticut.
Typical home $384,625 (+3.5% in a year), asking rent $1,875 (+8.6%). New Haven-Milford, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,229 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,942 +3%
- $371,683$384,625 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $117,379 +44%
- $267,246$384,625 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.
- Ansonia$2,019
- Connecticut$2,348
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Ansonia, CT rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Ansonia, CT rose 8.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Ansonia runs $1,299/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $3,174 a month against $1,875 rent: a $2,019 mortgage payment, plus $744 property tax and $412 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Ansonia
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,174
- Renting$1,875
- Mortgage only$2,019
Property tax · $744/mo 2.32% of value a year — the ACS 2017-2021 median bill over the median home value for New Haven County, CT
Insurance & upkeep · $412/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Ansonia, Connecticut
Ansonia is a city of 18,918 people in . Half its households earn more than $85,877 a year and half less; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Ansonia was 6.3% in August 2026. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Ansonia is a small city in Connecticut with a population that sits in the middle years, neither especially young nor especially old. Household incomes run comfortably high, and more homes are lived in by their owners than rented, though a good number of people rent. Winters are cold and summers warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Ansonia are the Ansonia School District, Target and Big Y WC. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, the typical commute is a fairly long one, and unemployment has risen over the past year.
Things to do. Osbornedale State Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town, and Indian Well State Park is a short drive away for walks and time outdoors. A short drive also brings you to the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Peabody Museum, both museums. The Yale Bowl, a stadium, is close by as well.
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- 7,212households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey.
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 63°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ansonia Northeast weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ansonia
- Ansonia School DistrictSchool district404FTE
- TargetDiscount department stores137
- Big Y WC128
- NPI Medical (Westfall Technik, LLC)Packaging, plastics, manufacturing126
- Ansonia Police DepartmentPolice departments52
- Intertape Polymer Group52
- City of Ansonia DPWWaste transfer stations, nonhazardous solid32
- AnsoniaMail and parcel delivery24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 574 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across its planning region, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on and the New Haven-Milford, CT metro.
Ansonia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ansonia$384,625
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Ansonia listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Ansonia25.68%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ansonia26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ansonia14
Zip codes with a Ansonia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ansonia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.