Bridgewater, Connecticut.
Typical home $734,287 (+0.8% in a year). Torrington, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,272 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,949 +1%
- $728,338$734,287 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $138,059 +23%
- $596,228$734,287 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.
- Bridgewater$3,854
- Connecticut$2,348
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Bridgewater, CT rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bridgewater, Connecticut
Bridgewater, in , had 133 people in the 2020 census.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bridgewater is a very small community in Connecticut, with far fewer residents than most towns. Few households here live below the poverty line, and homes are valued well above what is typical across much of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm, with plenty of rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. The facts available for Bridgewater do not name any large employers in or around the town.
Things to do. Lovers Leap State Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town, and the Shepaug River runs through the same stretch of countryside. A short drive away, Squantz Pond State Park offers more protected land to explore. For a longer outing, the Yale University Art Gallery is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 2%below the poverty line
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, 10 miles away (NOAA).
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 Torrington, CT metro.
Bridgewater home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bridgewater$734,287
- 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.
- Bridgewater9
Zip codes with a Bridgewater address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bridgewater — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.