Size, Age and Land: What a Typical Home Looks Like Here in Fairfield County

Three single-family homes in Westport sold for exactly $2,400,000 between November 2025 and October 2026, which was also the town's median sale price for the period. Two of the three were four-bedroom homes in Coleytown on exactly one acre, the median lot size in Westport, and one of them, a 1959 Colonial on Blue Ribbon Drive with 3.5 bathrooms and 3,584 square feet, was the closest match to Westport's typical home of any sale in town, with its price, size, age, lot size, sale-to-list price ratio and days on market all near the middle of Westport's sales.

Being an active Realtor in the area, I have a pretty good sense of what the typical home looks like in each of the towns I cover, but I wanted to see what the data showed, so I went through every single-family home that closed in Greenwich, Darien, New Canaan, Westport, Wilton, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Stamford and Norwalk between November 1, 2025 and October 31, 2026. That came to a total of 2,966 sales on SmartMLS, and for each town I looked at the size, age, lot size and sale price of the homes that sold, how quickly they went under contract, and which house style and bedroom count came up most often.

Every figure below is a median, the middle value, so half of the homes came in above it and half below, and each median is figured on its own, so a town's median size, build year and lot size don't necessarily belong to the same house. The sale-to-list price ratio compares a home's closing price to its final list price, so a ratio of 102% means a home listed at $1,000,000 sold for $1,020,000.

As it turns out, the most common house style, bedroom count and garage were nearly the same in every town, while the size of the house, the amount of land, its age and the price changed a lot from one town to the next, with median lot sizes ranging from 0.28 acres in Fairfield to two acres in New Canaan and Wilton.

What Each Town Has in Common

Colonials were the most common house style in all nine towns, which I looked at in more detail in my post on house styles here in Fairfield County, and four bedrooms was the most common count in seven of them, with New Canaan at five and Norwalk at three the two exceptions. A two-car garage was the most common in all nine towns as well, and across the nine towns together, the single most common combination of style and bedroom count was a four-bedroom Colonial, a total of 689 of the 2,966 sales.

Across all nine towns, single-family sales had a median of 2,801 square feet, a median build year of 1959 and a median lot of 0.54 acres, and sold for a median of $1,334,000. More of the homes that sold were built in the 1950s than in any other decade, a total of 626 sales, and the 1950s led in seven of the nine towns, with the 1960s ahead in Wilton and Ridgefield.

Town by Town

Darien. Darien sold more five-bedroom Colonials than four-bedroom Colonials over the 12 month period, 62 compared to 50, and New Canaan (66 compared to 45) and Westport (59 compared to 47) did the same. Darien's sales had a median of 3,512 square feet and 3.5 bathrooms, a 1952 build year and a 0.55-acre lot, and they sold for a median of $2,875,000 at a median sale-to-list price ratio of 106.3% after 11 days on market. See Darien single-family homes.

Fairfield. The median lot in Fairfield was 0.28 acres, a little over a quarter acre and the smallest of the nine towns. Homes that sold there had a median of 2,392 square feet and 2.5 bathrooms with a 1956 build year, and they closed at a median of $1,150,000 at a median sale-to-list price ratio of 102.9% after 17 days on market. See Fairfield single-family homes.

Greenwich. Greenwich also runs its own MLS, and the figures here exclude Greenwich MLS listings, so Greenwich activity is likely understated. The Greenwich homes that sold on SmartMLS had a median of 3,483 square feet and 3.5 bathrooms, a 1958 build year and a 0.38-acre lot, and went for a median of $2,626,250 at a median sale-to-list price ratio of 101.2% after 23 days on market. See Greenwich single-family homes.

New Canaan. New Canaan was the only one of the nine towns where five bedrooms was the most common count, at 77 of its 201 sales, and more than half of those sales, 107 of 201, sat on two acres or more, the highest share of any town. New Canaan's sales had a median of 4,665 square feet and 4.5 bathrooms, a 1966 build year and a two-acre lot, and sold for a median of $2,805,000 at a median sale-to-list price ratio of 102.7% after 15 days on market. See New Canaan single-family homes.

Norwalk. Three bedrooms was the most common count in Norwalk, at 230 of its 499 sales, the only town where that was the case. Norwalk's sales came in at a median of 2,076 square feet and 2.5 bathrooms, a 1955 build year and a 0.31-acre lot, and closed at a median of $826,000 at a median sale-to-list price ratio of 102.8% after 20 days on market. See Norwalk single-family homes.

Ridgefield. Ridgefield had the newest median build year of the nine towns, 1968, and more of its homes that sold were built in the 1960s than in any other decade, a total of 63 of its 232 sales. Homes in Ridgefield had a median of 3,107 square feet and 2.5 bathrooms on a 1.2-acre lot, and sold for a median of $1,262,740 at a median sale-to-list price ratio of 101.9% after 23 days on market. See Ridgefield single-family homes.

Stamford. In Stamford, 223 of the 565 sales with a recorded lot size sat on an acre of land or more, 39.5% of them, compared to 35.6% in Darien, where 74 of 208 did. Stamford's sales ran a median of 2,502 square feet and 2.5 bathrooms, with a 1956 build year and a 0.46-acre lot, and went for a median of $975,000 at a median sale-to-list price ratio of 104.1% after 20 days on market. See Stamford single-family homes.

Westport. A total of 38 of Westport's 277 sales were built in 2020 or later, as many as were built in the 1960s and second only to the 1950s, with 47. Westport's median sale-to-list price ratio was exactly 100.0%, so the typical home sold right at its asking price, at a median of $2,400,000 after 24 days on market, and the town's sales had a median of 3,674 square feet and 3.5 bathrooms, a 1965 build year and a one-acre lot. See Westport single-family homes.

Wilton. More than nine in ten homes that sold in Wilton came with an acre of land or more, 185 of the 199 Wilton sales with a recorded lot size (93.0%), the highest share of the nine towns, with a median lot of two acres. Wilton's sales had a median of 3,266 square feet and 3 bathrooms with a 1965 build year, and closed at a median of $1,390,000 at a median sale-to-list price ratio of 105.7% after 18 days on market. See Wilton single-family homes.

What This Means for a Seller

Over the past 12 months, the typical home in every one of the nine towns sold at or above its final asking price, at a median sale-to-list price ratio ranging from 100.0% in Westport to 106.3% in Darien, and went under contract in a median of 11 to 24 days on market depending on the town. Here in Fairfield County, a home priced in line with what similar homes in its town have sold for has usually drawn that kind of competition.

The comparable sales that matter most are usually homes in your own town with a similar style, bedroom count, square footage and lot size. If you're thinking about selling, I'd be happy to go over which recent sales compare best to your home!

What This Means for a Buyer

A four-bedroom Colonial was the most common home sold in six of the nine towns, a total of 689 sales across the nine towns, and those homes went under contract in a median of 16 days on market at a median sale-to-list price ratio of 104.5%. If that is the kind of house on your list, it pays to have your financing and your number ready before you tour.

The town you choose changes what that same house costs. Four-bedroom Colonials with between 3,000 and 3,999 square feet sold for a median of $2,806,250 in Darien and $1,125,000 in Norwalk, with a median lot of about half an acre in both towns, and the Norwalk homes were about 20 years newer. That is a real trade-off, and which side of it you want depends on your own preferences around commute, walkability, community and the countless other factors that set each of these towns apart, which also shows up in what a square foot costs in each town. If you are starting from a budget rather than a town, what your budget affords in these nine towns walks through what each price range bought.

Whether you are buying or selling, I'd be happy to go over the recent sales that compare most closely to your home, or to the one you have your eye on. You can search single-family homes in any of the nine towns on my site, and if you just want a starting point on your own home, my free home valuation gives you an estimate in about a minute!

A note on methodology: figures come from SmartMLS records for single-family homes in Greenwich, Darien, New Canaan, Westport, Wilton, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Stamford and Norwalk that closed between November 1, 2025 and October 31, 2026, pulled November 4, 2026, a total of 2,966 sales. Each figure is a median for that town unless it says otherwise. Square footage is total square footage, including finished space below grade. Bathrooms count a half bath as half. Each sale is counted under the first style listed on its MLS record. Lot sizes leave out 12 sales recorded with no lot of their own, such as homes in common-interest communities. Days on market are as SmartMLS reports them, counted from the listing date to an accepted offer. The sale-to-list price ratio compares the closing price to the final list price. Greenwich figures exclude Greenwich MLS listings, so Greenwich activity is likely understated. These figures describe the market as a whole and are not a valuation of any individual home.