Willimantic, Connecticut.
Typical home $276,519 (+2.3% in a year), asking rent $1,717 . Worcester, MA-CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$879 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,219 +2%
- $270,299$276,519 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,778 +41%
- $195,741$276,519 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.
- Willimantic$1,451
- 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 Willimantic, CT rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Willimantic, Connecticut
Willimantic, in , had 18,149 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $45,962 a year and half less; 23% of its people live below the poverty line. 35% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 65% are rented. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Willimantic is a community with a young population, with people younger on the whole than across much of the country, and a long-standing mill-town history on the river that gives it its name. Most homes are rented rather than owned, incomes run on the modest side, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January highs a little above freezing and lows well below it, summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Willimantic are Eastern Connecticut State University, the Windham School District and Windham Community Memorial Hospital. A typical commute is fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Willimantic River and the Natchaug River run in or beside town, and Pomeroy State Park, a protected area, is close by as well. The Windham Textile and History Museum and the Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum are also in or beside town. A short drive away, Mansfield Hollow State Park and Beaver Brook State Park offer more protected land to explore.
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- 6,662households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 6%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 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, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Willimantic
- Eastern Connecticut State UniversityUniversity or college831
- Windham School DistrictSchool district780FTE
- Windham Community Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital458FTE
- Prysmian Cables and Systems USACable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire213
- United AbrasivesAbrasive products manufacturing166
- Vanderman PlaceConvalescent homes or convalescent hospitals160
- Stop & ShopGrocery stores145
- BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.Warehouse club and supercenters99
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,723 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- 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.
Willimantic home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Willimantic$276,519
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Willimantic 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.
- Willimantic17.22%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Willimantic19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Willimantic10
Zip codes with a Willimantic address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Willimantic — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.