Killingworth, Connecticut.
Typical home $632,167 (+6.1% in a year). Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,002 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $36,364 +6%
- $595,803$632,167 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $186,001 +42%
- $446,166$632,167 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.
- Killingworth$3,318
- 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 Killingworth, CT rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Killingworth, Connecticut
Killingworth is a town in . Half its households earn more than $140,655 a year and half less; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Killingworth is a Connecticut town where most homes are lived in by their owners, a larger share than across most of the country. Its residents are older on average than most Americans, incomes sit well above most of the country's, and few households live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, summers turn warm in July, and the town gets a good deal of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, manufacturing, and retail shops. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and a fair number work from home. Most others commute to jobs outside the home.
Things to do. Chatfield Hollow State Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town. Gillette Castle State Park and Hammonasset Beach State Park, also protected areas, are a short drive away, and the second one is on the shore. The Yale University Art Gallery, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 2,516households
- 53.3median age
- 55%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 24%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 37° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Meriden Markham Municipal Airport weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 moderate. 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.
Killingworth home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Killingworth$632,167
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Killingworth 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Killingworth18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Killingworth8
Zip codes with a Killingworth address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Killingworth — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.