Oxford, Connecticut.
Typical home $596,641 (+7.9% in a year), asking rent $2,710 . New Haven-Milford, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,913 (+157%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $43,902 +8%
- $552,739$596,641 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $186,683 +46%
- $409,958$596,641 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.
- Oxford$3,132
- Connecticut$2,348
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Oxford, CT rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oxford, Connecticut
Oxford is a town in . Half its households earn more than $128,953 a year and half less; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oxford is a town in Connecticut where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes are high, and few residents live below the poverty line. Typical home values are high as well. Winters are colder than most of the country's, with snow, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others work in manufacturing, the building trades, or professional and business services. Many adults hold a college degree. Few residents work from home, so most people commute to work.
Things to do. Southford Falls State Park is a protected area in or beside town. Kettletown State Park and Quassy Amusement Park, an amusement park, are each a short drive away. The Yale University Art Gallery, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 5,046households
- 46%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 14%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, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 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 New Haven-Milford, CT metro.
Oxford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oxford$596,641
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Oxford listings — 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.
- Oxford26.55%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Oxford40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Oxford15
Zip codes with a Oxford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oxford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.