ZIP code 06796

ZIP 06796 is a very small community in Litchfield County, Connecticut, with 843 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #257 of 288 ranked by population — larger than 10% of them. The median age here is 59.5 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 ZIP 06796 earn a median of $107,125 a year, 36.4% above the national figure of $78,538. 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 10.7% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 06796 is valued at $480,700, 58.4% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 89.7% 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.

A median age of 59.5 puts ZIP 06796 well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 843 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 06796 against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for ZIP 06796 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.

ZIP 06796 is tabulated inside Litchfield County, Connecticut, one of 40 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 288 across Connecticut. Fewer than 2,500 people are counted here, so the ZIP behaves like a village delivery route rather than a neighbourhood. 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 06796 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 06796 reports a median household income of $107,125, 3% above the $103,843 county median, and close to the $105,813 typical CT ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $480,700, 27% above the county figure and 38% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at not published a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Connecticut charges 6.35% statewide, and no local sales tax is layered on top, so the state rate is the full amount collected in 06796.

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 06796 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.