Broad Brook, Connecticut.
Typical home $411,480 (+4.1% in a year). Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,327 (+159%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,215 +4%
- $395,265$411,480 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $141,914 +53%
- $269,566$411,480 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.
- Broad Brook$2,160
- Connecticut$2,348
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Broad Brook, CT rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Broad Brook, Connecticut
Broad Brook, in , had 3,998 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Broad Brook is a small community in Connecticut. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year, so yards and driveways see regular upkeep.
Work. Adults here are more likely than not to hold a four-year degree, and fewer households live below the poverty line than in many American towns. Commutes are of middling length, and a good number of people work from home. Typical home values sit in the middle of the range for the region.
Things to do. For a day out, Six Flags New England is an amusement park a short drive away. The New England Air Museum and the Connecticut Trolley Museum are also a short drive from town, and Shenipsit State Forest offers protected woodland close by for walking.
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- 1,595households
- 46%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 52 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hartford Bradley International Airport weather station, 8 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.
Broad Brook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Broad Brook$411,480
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Broad Brook 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Broad Brook16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Broad Brook9
Zip codes with a Broad Brook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Broad Brook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.