New Fairfield Real Estate

"New Fairfield Real Estate" New Fairfield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut with a population of over 14,000. The town is considered part of the greater New York Metropolitan Area as it lies approximately 50 miles from New York City. New Fairfield is one of five towns that surround Candlewood Lake, once a summer resort destination, now mostly populated with many year-round homes in New Fairfield. Although, the lake at its more northern boundary of Sherman and New Milford still contains a large number of summer communities filled with residents from NYC and Western New England.

New Fairfield has one high school, "New Fairfield High School", one middle school for grades 6 through 8, "New Fairfield Middle School", one elementary school for grades 3 to 5, "Meeting House Hill School", and a primary school for Kindergarten through grade 2, "Consolidated School".

The town of New Fairfield has a total area of over 25 square miles. As of the census of 2000, there were 13,953 people, 4,638 households, and 3,905 families residing in the town. The 4,638 households out of which 44.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 75.3% were married couples living together. The average household size was 3.01 and the average family size was 3.3.

The median income for a household in the town was $84,375, and the median income for a family was $92,576. Males had a median income of $65,978 versus $40,284 for females. The per capita income for the town was $34,928.

Homes for sale in New Fairfield, CT range from small, one-bedroom cottages to palatial waterfront estates, and include private lakefront communities. New Fairfield is situated just north of Danbury, bordering New York on the west, Sherman to the north and Candlewood Lake on the east. It's small-town charm, beautiful scenery, a wide variety of homes at all price levels, and convenient commuting location to Westchester County, Lower Fairfield County and Metro North trains to Manhattan make New Fairfield an ideal location for your new home. New Fairfield Lakes: Candlewood Lake, Squantz Pond State Park, Ball Pond Margerie Reservoir.