Willington, Connecticut.
Typical home $400,289 (+9.9% in a year). Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,279 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $36,082 +10%
- $364,207$400,289 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $130,477 +48%
- $269,812$400,289 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.
- Willington$2,101
- 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 Willington, CT rose 9.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Willington, Connecticut
Willington is a town in . Half its households earn more than $91,114 a year and half less; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Willington is a small town in the hills of northeastern Connecticut, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and snow is common, while summers are warm and the town is kept well watered by a steady amount of rain across the year. Its household incomes and home values give it a settled, residential feel, and few residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and a good number of others work in manufacturing, shops or professional and business services. Most people drive to their jobs, and only a small share work from home. A good number of adults hold a college degree.
Things to do. Bigelow Hollow State Park and Natchaug State Forest are both a short drive away, offering open land for walking and being outdoors. For a longer outing, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, one of the best known museums in the area, is a longer drive away.
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- 2,627households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 10%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 34° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 59°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Staffordville weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
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.
Willington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Willington$400,289
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Willington17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Willington7
Zip codes with a Willington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Willington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.