North Haven, Connecticut.
Typical home $473,385 (+5.2% in a year), asking rent $2,727 . New Haven-Milford, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,431 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,233 +5%
- $450,152$473,385 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $125,407 +36%
- $347,978$473,385 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.
- North Haven$2,485
- 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 North Haven, CT rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in North Haven, Connecticut
North Haven, in , had 24,253 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $132,689 a year and half less; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. North Haven is a Connecticut town where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population skews older than much of the country. Incomes run high and few households live in poverty. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and typical home values and rents are on the high side. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs a little above freezing, while July is warm and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and retail also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in North Haven are Amazon, whose warehousing operation is one of them, Covidien, which makes surgical stapling devices, and the North Haven School District. The typical commute is a short one, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art are museums within easy reach. For time outdoors, Quinnipiac River State Park lies in or beside town, and Wharton Brook State Park is a short drive away. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford makes a longer outing.
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- 9,586households
- 46%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 15%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 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Carmel weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in North Haven
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage4,545
- CovidienSurgical stapling devices manufacturing2,529
- Area Cooperative Educational Services SchoolsSchool district787FTE
- North Haven School DistrictSchool district539FTE
- Town of North HavenCity and town managers' offices412
- Kellermeyer Bergensons ServicesJanitorial services389
- Brescome BartonAlcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers341
- GXO Logistics Supply ChainGeneral warehousing and storage285
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 46 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,846 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 New Haven-Milford, CT metro.
North Haven home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- North Haven$473,385
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 North Haven listings, and the typical home goes pending in 9 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- North Haven21.49%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- North Haven9
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- North Haven54
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- North Haven25
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- North Haven$497,518
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a North Haven address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls North Haven — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.