Wethersfield, Connecticut.
Typical home $431,356 (+9.9% in a year), asking rent $2,145 . Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,362 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $38,839 +10%
- $392,517$431,356 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $140,372 +48%
- $290,984$431,356 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.
- Wethersfield$2,264
- 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 Wethersfield, CT rose 9.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wethersfield, Connecticut
Wethersfield, in , had 27,298 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $126,806 a year and half less; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wethersfield is a community where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well above what is typical across the country. Residents are somewhat older than the national average, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July; rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with banks, insurance and property, professional and business services, and manufacturing also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Wethersfield are the Wethersfield School District, the DMV and Stop & Shop. The typical commute is a short one, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Several museums are a short drive away, including the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and the Mark Twain House. For time outdoors, Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum is also a short drive away, and the Farmington River is a longer drive.
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- 11,212households
- 55%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 21 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, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wethersfield
- Wethersfield School DistrictSchool district689FTE
- DMVTransportation safety programs, government478
- Department of CorrectionAdministration building construction469
- Hartford Health CareHome health care services278
- Stop & ShopGrocery stores113
- Discovery AcademyElementary schools100
- The Fresh MarketSupermarkets and other grocery retailers except convenience retailers85
- ATANE Engineers, P.C. - WethersfieldCivil engineering services70
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,953 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT metro.
Wethersfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wethersfield$431,356
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Wethersfield listings, and the typical home goes pending in 10 days — 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.
- Wethersfield19.71%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Wethersfield10
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wethersfield49
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wethersfield26
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Wethersfield$406,333
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Wethersfield106.53%
Zip codes with a Wethersfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wethersfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.