What is the population of Torrington city?

Torrington city has 35,481 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #19 of 215 in Connecticut.

What is the median household income in Torrington city?

Median household income in Torrington city is $69,611 a year, 11.4% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Torrington city?

Median gross rent is $1,101 a month and the median home value is $195,800, so rent absorbs about 19% of median household income.

Is Torrington city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.8× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Torrington city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Torrington, CT population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Torrington, Connecticut (Torrington, CT — Census place “Torrington city”) is 35,481 residents, ranking #19 of 215 places in Connecticut. Median household income is $69,611, the median home is worth $195,800 and median gross rent runs $1,101 a month. Looking for the Torrington Connecticut ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Torrington, CT: 06790.

Population: 35,481Torrington city residents
Median household income: $69,611Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $195,800Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,101Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 43.4 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 66.4%Owner-occupied households

Torrington ZIP codes (Connecticut)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Torrington.

The Torrington CT ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

06790

What the numbers mean in Torrington city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Torrington city median would spend about 19% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 2.8× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 13.6% of residents and 66.4% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Torrington city, CT in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Torrington city is a small city in Connecticut, with 35,481 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #19 of 215 ranked by population — larger than 91% of them. The median age here is 43.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Torrington city earn a median of $69,611 a year, 11.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 28% below the $96,484 median for the 159 Connecticut cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 13.6% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Torrington city is valued at $195,800, 35.5% below the national figure and 43% below the $344,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,101 a month, 21.7% below the national figure, or roughly $13,212 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. 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. 66.4% 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.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.

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What is the population of Torrington city?: Torrington city has 35,481 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #19 of 215 in Connecticut.
What is the median household income in Torrington city?: Median household income in Torrington city is $69,611 a year, 11.4% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Torrington city?: Median gross rent is $1,101 a month and the median home value is $195,800, so rent absorbs about 19% of median household income.
Is Torrington city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.8× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Torrington city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Torrington city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.