Plainfield, Connecticut.
Typical home $348,417 (+3.1% in a year), asking rent $1,450 . Worcester, MA-CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,096 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,411 +3%
- $338,006$348,417 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $97,319 +39%
- $251,099$348,417 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.
- Plainfield$1,829
- 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 Plainfield, CT rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plainfield, Connecticut
Plainfield is a town in . Half its households earn more than $76,993 a year and half less; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plainfield is a town in northeastern Connecticut, set along the Quinebaug River. Most homes are lived in by their owners, which gives the town a settled, neighborly feel. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Manufacturing is also a part of local work life. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people spend a fair stretch of time commuting to their jobs rather than working from home.
Things to do. The Moosup Valley State Park Trail and the Quinebaug Trail both lie in or beside town, so walking and cycling are close at hand. Pachaug State Forest is a short drive away and offers wide stretches of woods and water. For a longer outing, Mystic Seaport, a well-known museum of maritime history, is a further drive off.
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- 6,060households
- 37.0median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 10%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 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 60°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hampton weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Natural hazards
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 low. 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 Worcester, MA-CT metro.
Plainfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plainfield$348,417
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Plainfield listings, and the typical home goes pending in 8 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.
- Plainfield26.67%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Plainfield37
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Plainfield17
Zip codes with a Plainfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plainfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Plainfield
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06374 | Plainfield | 7,838 | — | $340,369 |
| 06354 | Moosup | 6,031 | — | $372,172 |