Orange, Connecticut.
Typical home $629,042 (+0.6% in a year), asking rent $2,908 . New Haven-Milford, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,929 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,561 +1%
- $625,482$629,042 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $172,721 +38%
- $456,322$629,042 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.
- Orange$3,302
- 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 Orange, CT rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Orange, Connecticut
Orange, in , had 14,280 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $142,325 a year and half less; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Orange is a community where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and renters are few compared with most places. Residents tend to be older than in the country as a whole, with household incomes well above the national level and few people living below the poverty line. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and home values run high.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Orange are Avangrid, which distributes electric power and natural gas, Amazon, and the Orange School District. Commutes are moderate in length, and more people work from home than is typical.
Things to do. A short drive away are the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art, both museums, along with the Yale Bowl stadium. For time outdoors, West Rock Ridge State Park and Silver Sands State Park are protected areas a short drive off. Winters here are cold and summers warm, with a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year.
Report a mistake
- 5,386households
- 59%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 16%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 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 63°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ansonia Northeast weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Orange
- AvangridDistribution of electric power772
- AvangridGas, natural, distribution332
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services276
- Orange School DistrictSchool district257FTE
- AuroraSeeds, snack manufacturing200
- TargetDiscount department stores186
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services185
- Northeast Beverage Corp ofAlcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers144
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,468 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.
Orange home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Orange$629,042
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Orange 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.
- Orange21.75%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Orange35
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Orange16
Zip codes with a Orange address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Orange — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.