Colebrook, Connecticut.
Typical home $400,531 (+5.6% in a year). Torrington, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,298 (+161%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,095 +6%
- $379,436$400,531 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $106,015 +36%
- $294,516$400,531 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.
- Colebrook$2,102
- Connecticut$2,348
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Colebrook, CT rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Colebrook, Connecticut
Colebrook is a town in . Half its households earn more than $111,250 a year and half less; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Colebrook is a town in Connecticut where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical resident is older than the country as a whole. Household incomes are high, and few people live below the poverty line. Winters are colder and snowier than in most of the country, and summers are warm, with the coldest weather in January and the warmest in July.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in the building trades, manufacturing and local shops. Commutes are longer than in many places, and only a small share of residents work from home. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Algonquin State Forest is a protected area in or beside the town, so it is the nearest place for walks and time outdoors. Platt Hill State Park is another protected area, a short drive away. For indoor time, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 598households
- 52.1median age
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 7%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 34° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 60°. About 51 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Barkhamsted weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively 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 Torrington, CT metro.
Colebrook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Colebrook$400,531
- 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.
Zip codes with a Colebrook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Colebrook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.