South Windham, Connecticut.
Typical home $295,640 (+2.8% in a year). Worcester, MA-CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$940 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,093 +3%
- $287,547$295,640 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,939 +41%
- $209,701$295,640 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.
- South Windham$1,552
- 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 South Windham, CT rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in South Windham, Connecticut
South Windham, in , had 1,383 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $75,045 a year and half less.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. South Windham is a small community in eastern Connecticut, home to a modest number of people. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year, so the seasons are distinct. Homes here are valued at a level that many buyers in the Northeast would find within reach.
Work. Household incomes here sit at a middle level, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than is common across the country. A noticeable group of people work from home, though most travel to jobs elsewhere in the region.
Things to do. Pomeroy State Park is a protected area in or beside town, and the Natchaug River and Willimantic River both run nearby. The Windham Textile and History Museum is also in or beside town. Mansfield Hollow State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 11%work from home
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Willimantic Windham Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Natural hazards
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively 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 Worcester, MA-CT metro.
South Windham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- South Windham$295,640
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a South Windham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls South Windham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.