Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
Typical home $337,893 (+9.8% in a year), asking rent $2,308 . Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,078 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $30,294 +10%
- $307,598$337,893 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $110,949 +49%
- $226,943$337,893 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.
- Windsor Locks$1,774
- 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 Windsor Locks, CT rose 9.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Windsor Locks, Connecticut
Windsor Locks, in , had 12,613 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $81,205 a year and half less; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Windsor Locks is a community along the Connecticut River, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run comfortably above what many places see, and typical rents are on the high side. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers turn warm in July, while rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and banks, insurance and property also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in town are the Windsor Locks School District, UPS and Bradley International Airport. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The New England Air Museum and the Connecticut Trolley Museum are both in or beside town, and are a natural pair for a quiet afternoon. A short drive away is Six Flags New England, an amusement park with rides such as Superman The Ride. For something farther afield, the Mark Twain House is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 5,268households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 22 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 35° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 52 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hartford Bradley International Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Windsor Locks
- Windsor Locks School DistrictSchool district473FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services448
- FedEx 100 OLD COUNTY CIRCLETransportation air cargo234
- FedEx FreightLess than truckload general freight trucking187
- JB Hunt160
- Bradley International AirportAirports, civil, operation and maintenance153
- Parts Authority - CT - 350 - WindsorAutomobile & other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers except tires149
- Town of Windsor Locks and Windsor Locks Board of EducationGeneral services departments, government132
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,151 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.
Windsor Locks home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Windsor Locks$337,893
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Windsor Locks 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.
- Windsor Locks17.90%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Windsor Locks29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Windsor Locks14
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Windsor Locks address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Windsor Locks — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.