Ellington, Connecticut.
Typical home $446,764 (+2.9% in a year). Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,363 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,782 +3%
- $433,983$446,764 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $125,972 +39%
- $320,792$446,764 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.
- Ellington$2,345
- 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 Ellington, CT rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ellington, Connecticut
Ellington is a town in . Half its households earn more than $129,913 a year and half less; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ellington is a town in Connecticut where most homes are lived in by their owners and few households live below the poverty line. Household incomes sit well above the national level, and more adults hold a college degree than do not. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall heavily across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, and others work in banks, insurance and property, or in professional and business services. Commutes run longer than many across the country, though a sizable share of people work from home.
Things to do. Shenipsit State Forest and the Hop River State Park Trail are both protected areas a short drive away, suited to walking and time outdoors. The Connecticut Trolley Museum, also a short drive off, is a museum devoted to trolleys and streetcars.
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- 6,321households
- 40.9median age
- 51%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 31 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 34° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 59°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Staffordville weather station, 11 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.
Ellington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ellington$446,764
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Ellington 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.
- Ellington16.80%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ellington37
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ellington19
Zip codes with a Ellington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ellington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.