Portland, Connecticut.
Typical home $415,452 (+3.3% in a year). Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,266 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,269 +3%
- $402,183$415,452 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $117,177 +39%
- $298,275$415,452 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.
- Portland$2,181
- 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 Portland, CT rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Portland, Connecticut
Portland, in , had 5,813 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $89,401 a year and half less; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Portland is a small community where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run comfortable for the region. Residents tend to be middle-aged, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly warm by July, with a steady supply of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades also employing many. The largest workplaces in town include the Portland School District, the Town of Portland, and Birdon, a shipyard that does ship repair. Commutes are fairly long, and a noticeable number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Mattabesset River and the Coginchaug River run in or beside town, and Wadsworth Falls State Park and Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum are each a short drive away for walking and time outdoors. For museums, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and the Mark Twain House are a longer drive away.
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- 2,555households
- 46%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 18%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 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 66°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hartford Brainard Field weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Portland
- Portland School DistrictSchool district260FTE
- Town of PortlandGeneral services departments, government113
- BirdonShip repair done in a shipyard90
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 203 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
- 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.
Portland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Portland$415,452
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Portland 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.
- Portland18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Portland10
Zip codes with a Portland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Portland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.