ZIP code 06612

ZIP 06612 is a mid-size town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, with 7,612 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #152 of 288 ranked by population — larger than 47% of them. The median age here is 45.5 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 ZIP 06612 earn a median of $189,505 a year, 141.3% above the national figure of $78,538. 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 7.7% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 06612 is valued at $727,200, 139.7% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $2,719 a month, 93.4% above the national figure, or roughly $32,628 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.2% 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 3.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 85.3% 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. 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.

ZIP 06612 is tabulated inside Fairfield County, Connecticut, one of 46 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 288 across Connecticut. Population sits in the small-town band, typically one main street plus the addresses that feed into it. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 06612 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 06612 reports a median household income of $189,505, 38% above the $137,778 county median, and 79% above the $105,813 typical CT ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $727,200, 35% above the county figure and 108% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $2,719 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

A taxable purchase made inside 06612 carries 6.35% at the register, assembled from the Bridgeport jurisdiction stack: the Connecticut state rate plus every county, municipal and special district levy that reaches this address. Because those district boundaries were drawn for schools, transit and hospital funding rather than for mail delivery, two addresses inside 06612 can legitimately fall under different totals — the rate shown here is the one that applies to the dominant jurisdiction.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 06612 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.