Wolcott, Connecticut.
Typical home $391,959 (+2.9% in a year). New Haven-Milford, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,205 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,043 +3%
- $380,916$391,959 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $108,473 +38%
- $283,486$391,959 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.
- Wolcott$2,057
- Connecticut$2,348
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Wolcott, CT rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wolcott, Connecticut
Wolcott is a town in . Half its households earn more than $110,850 a year and half less; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wolcott is a town in Connecticut where most homes are lived in by their owners, and most residents are in the middle years of life. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm by July. The year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow, so the seasons often feel damp.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others work in shops, manufacturing, or professional and business services. A good number of adults hold a college degree. Most people head out to a workplace each day, since working from home is less common here.
Things to do. Yale University Art Gallery is one of the best known museums, a longer drive away, and it sits among several other museums in the area. Lake Compounce, an amusement park, and Mattatuck State Forest, a protected area, are both a short drive away. For winter fun, Mount Southington, a ski area, is in or beside town.
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- 6,248households
- 44.4median age
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 11%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 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Meriden Markham Municipal Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 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 New Haven-Milford, CT metro.
Wolcott home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wolcott$391,959
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Wolcott listings, and the typical home goes pending in 10 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Wolcott21.73%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wolcott55
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wolcott23
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Wolcott address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wolcott — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.