Branford Center, CT population, income and ZIP codes

Branford Center CDP is a mid-size town in Connecticut, with 6,130 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #58 of 215 ranked by population — larger than 73% of them. The median age here is 52.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Branford Center CDP earn a median of $70,391 a year, 10.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 27% below the $96,484 median for the 159 Connecticut cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 14.7% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Branford Center CDP is valued at $291,500, 3.9% below the national figure and 15% below the $344,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,414 a month, essentially level with the national figure, or roughly $16,968 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 24.1% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 42% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 52.9 puts Branford Center CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.