Bethany, Connecticut.
Typical home $561,906 (+0.2% in a year). New Haven-Milford, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,756 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,192 +0%
- $560,714$561,906 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $158,697 +39%
- $403,209$561,906 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.
- Bethany$2,949
- 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 Bethany, CT rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bethany, Connecticut
Bethany is a town in . Half its households earn more than $166,236 a year and half less; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bethany is a town in Connecticut where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes are high while few residents live below the poverty line. Many adults hold a degree, and typical home values are high. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and the town gets a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work in a mix of fields, with schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and banks, insurance and property all well represented. Relatively few people work from home, so most commute out each day.
Things to do. The Yale University Art Gallery is a museum a short drive away, and West Rock Ridge State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive off. The Quinnipiac River, a river, is a short drive away as well.
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- 1,735households
- 42.5median age
- 58%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 12%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 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Carmel weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 high. 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.
Bethany home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bethany$561,906
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bethany10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bethany address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bethany — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.