Chaplin, Connecticut.
Typical home $367,726 (+7.9% in a year). Worcester, MA-CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,164 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26,894 +8%
- $340,832$367,726 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $109,501 +42%
- $258,225$367,726 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.
- Chaplin$1,930
- 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 Chaplin, CT rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chaplin, Connecticut
Chaplin is a town in . Half its households earn more than $97,846 a year and half less; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chaplin is a small town in northeastern Connecticut, where most homes are lived in by their owners and a low share of residents live in poverty. Winters are cold, with the town usually at its coldest in January, when highs stay near freezing and nights fall well below it. Summers are warm, peaking in July, and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and a good number work in professional and business services. Manufacturing and retail also employ local people, and a fair share of adults hold a four-year degree. Most people commute to their jobs, often over a fairly long drive, and only a modest share work from home.
Things to do. Lake Chaubunagungamaug is one of the best known spots in the area, though it lies a longer drive away. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, also a longer drive off, is a museum of art that draws visitors from across the region. Mansfield Hollow State Park is a protected area in or beside town, making it the easiest place to walk or picnic close to home.
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- 883households
- 43.7median age
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 18%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 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 60°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hampton weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Natural hazards
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
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 low. 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 Worcester, MA-CT metro.
Chaplin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chaplin$367,726
- 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.
- Chaplin8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Chaplin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chaplin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.