ZIP code 06902

ZIP 06902 is a small city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, with 72,915 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it first of 288 ranked by population. The median age here is 37.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in ZIP 06902 earn a median of $92,527 a year, 17.8% 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 10.2% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 06902 is valued at $515,000, 69.7% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $2,139 a month, 52.1% above the national figure, or roughly $25,668 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 27.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 40.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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 06902 is tabulated inside Fairfield County, Connecticut, one of 46 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 288 across Connecticut. This is a dense urban ZIP, where a single postal boundary can hold more residents than an entire rural county. 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 06902 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 06902 reports a median household income of $92,527, 33% below the $137,778 county median, and 13% below the $105,813 typical CT ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $515,000, 4% below the county figure and 48% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $2,139 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 06902.

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 06902 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.