Redding, Connecticut.
Typical home $867,606 (+4.0% in a year). Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,749 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $33,573 +4%
- $834,034$867,606 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $234,621 +37%
- $632,985$867,606 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.
- Redding$4,554
- 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 Redding, CT rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Redding, Connecticut
Redding is a town in . Half its households earn more than $186,060 a year and half less; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Redding is a town in Connecticut where most homes are lived in by their owners, a larger share than across the country. Incomes here are well above the national level, and few residents live below the poverty line. Most adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical home is worth far more than one across most of the country. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Residents work in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in banking, insurance and property, and in manufacturing. Many people work from home, more than across the country, and the typical commute is longer than the American average.
Things to do. Putnam Memorial State Park lies in or beside town, so it is the easiest outing for a walk among the trees. Weir Farm National Historical Park and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum are each a short drive away, the first a historical park and the second a museum of modern art.
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- 3,399households
- 52.0median age
- 72%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 32%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 62°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Danbury Municipal Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively 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 Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT metro.
Redding home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Redding$867,606
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Redding 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.
- Redding26.52%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Redding35
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Redding8
Zip codes with a Redding address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Redding — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.