Rent, home values, family budgets, pay and taxes for the Hartford metro area, county by county.
Across the 3 counties in the metro with their own Zillow home value, the median typical home is worth $415,364. Values changed +5.3% over the past year and +41.4% over five years at the median county.
With 10% down at 7.03%, the average 30-year rate on September 24, 2026, that home costs about $3,251 a month with tax, insurance and mortgage insurance, which takes $139,315 a year of income under the usual 28% guideline. The Economic Policy Institute publishes no median family income for these counties, so there is no local income to test it against. Try it with your own income.
The Economic Policy Institute prices what a modest but adequate standard of living costs in every county. In the median county of the metro, that comes to $57,333 a year for one adult and $136,160 for two adults and two children, of which $22,508 is childcare, against national averages of $47,367 and $101,771.
Prices across Connecticut as a whole run 3.6% above the national average and rents 17.0% above the national average, by the Bureau of Economic Analysis's state measure. Median pay across all jobs in the state is $59,690 a year. Connecticut's top income tax rate on wages is 6.99%. These are statewide figures, not measured for the metro itself. The metro lies within Connecticut. Compare a salary with another state or work out take-home pay.
| Hartford County | $390,975 | +5.3% | $1,998 | — | $133,522 |
| Middlesex County | $467,522 | +4.9% | $2,144 | — | $144,592 |
| Tolland County | $415,364 | +5.6% | $1,896 | — | $136,160 |
A dash means the source publishes no figure for that county. Metro membership follows Zillow's own county-to-metro assignment.
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