Lake Chaffee, CT population, income and ZIP codes

Lake Chaffee CDP is a very small community in Connecticut, with 299 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #194 of 215 ranked by population — larger than 9% of them. The median age here is 48.6 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 Lake Chaffee CDP earn a median of $97,813 a year, 24.5% 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. 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 0% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Lake Chaffee CDP is valued at $252,800, 16.7% below the national figure and 27% below the $344,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 80% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

With 299 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Lake Chaffee CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Lake Chaffee 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.