East Haven, CT population, income and ZIP codes

East Haven CDP is a small city in Connecticut, with 27,729 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #22 of 215 ranked by population — larger than 90% of them. The median age here is 45.2 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 East Haven CDP earn a median of $86,498 a year, 10.1% above the national figure of $78,538 and 10% below the $96,484 median for the 159 Connecticut cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 8% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in East Haven CDP is valued at $274,900, 9.4% below the national figure and 20% below the $344,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,454 a month, 3.4% above the national figure, or roughly $17,448 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.2% 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 3.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 74.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.