East Brooklyn, CT population, income and ZIP codes

East Brooklyn CDP is a small town in Connecticut, with 2,008 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #119 of 215 ranked by population — larger than 44% of them. The median age here is 46.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 East Brooklyn CDP earn a median of $62,125 a year, 20.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 36% 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 5.4% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in East Brooklyn CDP is valued at $268,000, 11.7% below the national figure and 22% below the $344,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,138 a month, 19.1% below the national figure, or roughly $13,656 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22% 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 4.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 59% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.