Top 14 CT Towns Everyone's Moving To

Picking the right community to buy a home in requires careful consideration, including weighing several factors from cost of living to keeping up with the standard of living. And while it’s not always best to go with the crowd, a look at which towns are attracting the most new homeowners can be helpful.

This week’s set of data breaks down how many new homeowner have moved in to each town or community and where they came from — moving within the same county or coming from a different county, state or county.

The figures also show how long homeowners have lived in their town and the number of residents who were in the same home 1 year prior.

The list above counts down the 14 towns with the most new homeowners per capita and the communities with the least newcomers are listed below.

Learn more about each metric and find an interactive map of every town and community in Connecticut, coded by the median years lived in town, here.

Along with the 14 communities with the lowest number of new homeowners per capita, 10 communities had no neighbors come to town: Gilman, Montville, Hanover, Rogers, East Canaan, Pine Meadow, Middle Haddam, Wauregan, Oneco and South Lyme.

Most of those 10 have very few households — such as Hanover, with only 19 owner-occupied homes — though others are large, like East Canaan, with 653 homeowners.

These communities also tended to have higher median years in town, with a median of more than 44 years in both Hanover and Rogers (58 households).

Lowest Number of New Homeowners per Capita

• New Homeowners per Capita: 2.07
• Homeowner Households: 1,643
• Median Years in Town: 26
• Same Home 1 Year Ago: 1,609
• Percent in Same Home: 97.93 percent
• New Homeowners: 34
• Moved within County: 0
• Percent Moved within County: 0 percent
• Moved from Different County: 0
• Percent from Different County: 0 percent
• Moved from Different State: 34
• Percent from Different State: 100 percent
• Moved from Abroad: 0
• Percent from Abroad: 0 percent

• New Homeowners per Capita: 2.00
• Homeowner Households: 5,152
• Median Years in Town: 18
• Same Home 1 Year Ago: 5,049
• Percent in Same Home: 98.00 percent
• New Homeowners: 103
• Moved within County: 83
• Percent Moved within County: 80.58 percent
• Moved from Different County: 3
• Percent from Different County: 2.91 percent
• Moved from Different State: 0
• Percent from Different State: 0 percent
• Moved from Abroad: 17
• Percent from Abroad: 16.50 percent

• New Homeowners per Capita: 1.91
• Homeowner Households: 5,287
• Median Years in Town: 15
• Same Home 1 Year Ago: 5,186
• Percent in Same Home: 98.09 percent
• New Homeowners: 101
• Moved within County: 53
• Percent Moved within County: 52.48 percent
• Moved from Different County: 10
• Percent from Different County: 9.90 percent
• Moved from Different State: 13
• Percent from Different State: 12.87 percent
• Moved from Abroad: 25
• Percent from Abroad: 24.75 percent

• New Homeowners per Capita: 1.88
• Homeowner Households: 6,873
• Median Years in Town: 18
• Same Home 1 Year Ago: 6,744
• Percent in Same Home: 98.12 percent
• New Homeowners: 129
• Moved within County: 41
• Percent Moved within County: 31.78 percent
• Moved from Different County: 13
• Percent from Different County: 10.08 percent
• Moved from Different State: 36
• Percent from Different State: 27.91 percent
• Moved from Abroad: 39
• Percent from Abroad: 30.23 percent

• New Homeowners per Capita: 1.79
• Homeowner Households: 5,428
• Median Years in Town: 19
• Same Home 1 Year Ago: 5,331
• Percent in Same Home: 98.21 percent
• New Homeowners: 97
• Moved within County: 78
• Percent Moved within County: 80.41 percent
• Moved from Different County: 8
• Percent from Different County: 8.25 percent
• Moved from Different State: 0
• Percent from Different State: 0 percent
• Moved from Abroad: 11
• Percent from Abroad: 11.34 percent

• New Homeowners per Capita: 1.74
• Homeowner Households: 16,263
• Median Years in Town: 14
• Same Home 1 Year Ago: 15,980
• Percent in Same Home: 98.26 percent
• New Homeowners: 283
• Moved within County: 72
• Percent Moved within County: 25.44 percent
• Moved from Different County: 185
• Percent from Different County: 65.37 percent
• Moved from Different State: 10
• Percent from Different State: 3.53 percent
• Moved from Abroad: 16
• Percent from Abroad: 5.65 percent

• New Homeowners per Capita: 1.40
• Homeowner Households: 1,071
• Median Years in Town: 16
• Same Home 1 Year Ago: 1,056
• Percent in Same Home: 98.60 percent
• New Homeowners: 15
• Moved within County: 0
• Percent Moved within County: 0 percent
• Moved from Different County: 15
• Percent from Different County: 100 percent
• Moved from Different State: 0
• Percent from Different State: 0 percent
• Moved from Abroad: 0
• Percent from Abroad: 0 percent

• New Homeowners per Capita: 1.34
• Homeowner Households: 298
• Median Years in Town: 19
• Same Home 1 Year Ago: 294
• Percent in Same Home: 98.66 percent
• New Homeowners: 4
• Moved within County: 4
• Percent Moved within County: 100 percent
• Moved from Different County: 0
• Percent from Different County: 0 percent
• Moved from Different State: 0
• Percent from Different State: 0 percent
• Moved from Abroad: 0
• Percent from Abroad: 0 percent

• New Homeowners per Capita: 1.12
• Homeowner Households: 9,022
• Median Years in Town: 14
• Same Home 1 Year Ago: 8,921
• Percent in Same Home: 98.88 percent
• New Homeowners: 101
• Moved within County: 0
• Percent Moved within County: 0 percent
• Moved from Different County: 58
• Percent from Different County: 57.43 percent
• Moved from Different State: 29
• Percent from Different State: 28.71 percent
• Moved from Abroad: 14
• Percent from Abroad: 13.86 percent

• New Homeowners per Capita: 0.92
• Homeowner Households: 871
• Median Years in Town: 20
• Same Home 1 Year Ago: 863
• Percent in Same Home: 99.08 percent
• New Homeowners: 8
• Moved within County: 0
• Percent Moved within County: 0 percent
• Moved from Different County: 0
• Percent from Different County: 0 percent
• Moved from Different State: 4
• Percent from Different State: 50 percent
• Moved from Abroad: 4
• Percent from Abroad: 50 percent

• New Homeowners per Capita: 0.80
• Homeowner Households: 3,014
• Median Years in Town: 17
• Same Home 1 Year Ago: 2,990
• Percent in Same Home: 99.20 percent
• New Homeowners: 24
• Moved within County: 0
• Percent Moved within County: 0 percent
• Moved from Different County: 15
• Percent from Different County: 62.50 percent
• Moved from Different State: 9
• Percent from Different State: 37.50 percent
• Moved from Abroad: 0
• Percent from Abroad: 0 percent

• New Homeowners per Capita: 0.76
• Homeowner Households: 2,102
• Median Years in Town: 18
• Same Home 1 Year Ago: 2,086
• Percent in Same Home: 99.24 percent
• New Homeowners: 16
• Moved within County: 7
• Percent Moved within County: 43.75 percent
• Moved from Different County: 9
• Percent from Different County: 56.25 percent
• Moved from Different State: 0
• Percent from Different State: 0 percent
• Moved from Abroad: 0
• Percent from Abroad: 0 percent

• New Homeowners per Capita: 0.74
• Homeowner Households: 1,352
• Median Years in Town: 19
• Same Home 1 Year Ago: 1,342
• Percent in Same Home: 99.26 percent
• New Homeowners: 10
• Moved within County: 0
• Percent Moved within County: 0 percent
• Moved from Different County: 4
• Percent from Different County: 40 percent
• Moved from Different State: 6
• Percent from Different State: 60 percent
• Moved from Abroad: 0
• Percent from Abroad: 0 percent

• New Homeowners per Capita: 0.71
• Homeowner Households: 6,309
• Median Years in Town: 19
• Same Home 1 Year Ago: 6,264
• Percent in Same Home: 99.29 percent
• New Homeowners: 45
• Moved within County: 29
• Percent Moved within County: 64.44 percent
• Moved from Different County: 16
• Percent from Different County: 35.56 percent
• Moved from Different State: 0
• Percent from Different State: 0 percent
• Moved from Abroad: 0
• Percent from Abroad: 0 percent