Brookfield, Connecticut.
Typical home $581,102 (+5.0% in a year), asking rent $2,732 . Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,752 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $27,604 +5%
- $553,498$581,102 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $144,463 +33%
- $436,639$581,102 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.
- Brookfield$3,050
- 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 Brookfield, CT rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brookfield, Connecticut
Brookfield is a town in . Half its households earn more than $148,360 a year and half less; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brookfield is a town in western Connecticut where many residents are in middle age and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall throughout the year. Home values and household incomes are well above the national level, and the town has a quiet, settled feel that suits people who have lived in one place for a long time.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in professional and business services. Manufacturing and retail also employ people here. Adults in the town are much more likely than most Americans to hold a degree, and a fair share of people work from home at least some of the time.
Things to do. Squantz Pond State Park, a protected area a short drive away, offers a pond setting for walks and quiet days outdoors. Lovers Leap State Park, also a short drive away, is another protected area for time spent in nature. For a museum visit, the Yale University Art Gallery is a longer drive away.
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- 6,587households
- 44.3median age
- 58%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 28 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, 5 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 Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT metro.
Brookfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brookfield$581,102
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Brookfield listings, and the typical home goes pending in 20 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.
- Brookfield30.11%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Brookfield20
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brookfield69
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brookfield22
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Brookfield$611,563
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Brookfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brookfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.