Gales Ferry, CT population, income and ZIP codes

Gales Ferry CDP is a small town in Connecticut, with 1,027 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #162 of 215 ranked by population — larger than 24% of them. The median age here is 40.7 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 Gales Ferry CDP earn a median of not published a year. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 34.9% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Gales Ferry CDP is valued at $282,800, 6.8% below the national figure and 18% below the $344,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,178 a month, 54.9% above the national figure, or roughly $26,136 across a full year. 75.1% 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.

The Census withheld household income for Gales Ferry CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.