Bethel, Connecticut.
Typical home $564,442 (+3.7% in a year), asking rent $2,850 . Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,697 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,093 +4%
- $544,349$564,442 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $136,829 +32%
- $427,613$564,442 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.
- Bethel$2,963
- Connecticut$2,348
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Bethel, CT rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bethel, Connecticut
Bethel, in , had 11,582 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $90,848 a year and half less; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bethel is a small Connecticut town whose residents are somewhat older than across the country as a whole, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run comfortably high and few residents live below the poverty line, though typical home values and rents are both steep. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. The largest workplaces in Bethel include the Bethel School District, Eaton Aerospace and Coronet Machinery. The typical commute is a long one, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Putnam Memorial State Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are Wooster Mountain State Park and Weir Farm National Historical Park, both protected areas, along with the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Winters are cold and snowy, and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow, with warm summers.
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- 4,830households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 16%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 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 49 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Danbury weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bethel
- Bethel School DistrictSchool district524FTE
- Eaton AerospaceAssembly and test of aero transducers124
- Coronet MachineryPrecision turned product manufacturing81
- AlleimaTin and tin alloy bar, pipe, rod, sheet, strip, and tubing made from purchased metals or scrap60
- First Student52
- Thrive BrandsLawn care services49
- Worth ConstructionCommercial building construction general contractors48
- Sodexo at Bethel Public SchoolsFood service contractors42
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 648 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively 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 Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT metro.
Bethel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bethel$564,442
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Bethel listings, and the typical home goes pending in 10 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Bethel24.75%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bethel47
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bethel18
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Bethel$506,320
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Bethel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bethel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.