Broad Brook, CT population, income and ZIP codes

Broad Brook CDP is a small town in Connecticut, with 3,550 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #81 of 215 ranked by population — larger than 62% of them. The median age here is 42.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Broad Brook CDP earn a median of $96,484 a year, 22.9% above the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of 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 9.8% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Broad Brook CDP is valued at $328,300, 8.2% above the national figure and 5% below the $344,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,297 a month, 7.8% below the national figure, or roughly $15,564 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.1% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 70.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.