Bolton, Connecticut.
Typical home $450,925 (+2.3% in a year). Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,414 (+148%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,011 +2%
- $440,913$450,925 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $133,465 +42%
- $317,459$450,925 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.
- Bolton$2,367
- 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 Bolton, CT rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bolton, Connecticut
Bolton is a town in . Half its households earn more than $126,364 a year and half less; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bolton is a Connecticut town where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical resident is at mid-life. Household incomes are high, and relatively few households live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain or melted snow falls through much of the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in banks, insurance and property. Professional and business services and manufacturing also employ people here. A degree is common among adults, and a commute is usually a drive rather than a short walk, though a fair number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Bolton Notch State Park and the Hop River are both in or beside town, so they are the easiest outings for a day. For a longer drive, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art is a museum of art and a well-known stop in the region.
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- 1,974households
- 43.7median age
- 51%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 21%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 35° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 63°. About 39 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Storrs weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT metro.
Bolton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bolton$450,925
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Bolton 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.
- Bolton15.73%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bolton22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bolton6
Zip codes with a Bolton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bolton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.