Darien, Connecticut.
Typical home $2,474,421 (+14.5% in a year), asking rent $5,634 . Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$8,417 (+184%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $313,268 +14%
- $2,161,152$2,474,421 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $951,628 +62%
- $1,522,793$2,474,421 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.
- Darien$12,988
- Connecticut$2,348
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 7 years.
Typical home values in Darien, CT rose 14.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Darien, Connecticut
Darien is a town in . 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. The most residents work in finance and property, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Darien sits on the Connecticut shore along Long Island Sound, and most homes are lived in by their owners, a larger share than across most of the country. Home values and rents are high compared with most towns in the country, and few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in banking, insurance and property, professional and business services, schools, hospitals and social care, and shops. Most adults hold a four-year degree, and many people work from home, though the typical commute is longer than in most of the country.
Things to do. Nearby, the Glass House is a museum a short drive away, and the Bronx Zoo is a zoo a longer drive away. The New York Botanical Garden, a botanical garden also a longer drive away, offers enough room for a full day of walking.
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- 7,234households
- 40.0median age
- 86%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 39 mintypical commute
- 36%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 38° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 34 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stamford North weather station, 6 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.
Darien home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Darien$2,474,421
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 15 Darien 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.
- Darien6.75%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Darien33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Darien13
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Darien$2,661,102
- United States$371,553
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Darien111.25%
Zip codes with a Darien address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Darien — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.