Lakes West, CT population, income and ZIP codes

Lakes West CDP is a small town in Connecticut, with 1,308 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #146 of 215 ranked by population — larger than 32% of them. The median age here is 42.4 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 Lakes West CDP earn a median of $244,286 a year, 211% above the national figure of $78,538 and 153% above 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 1.8% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Lakes West CDP is valued at $693,200, 128.5% above the national figure and 101% above the $344,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 100% 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. 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 gross rent for Lakes West 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.