Best Places06093, CT Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 06093, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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06093 ranks 2,002nd of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on civic engagement by a wide margin, and the weather ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in 06093

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 06093 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

06093's strengths and weaknesses

Top 10%Civic engagement
Top 10%Health care access
Top 10%What local pay buys
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 06093 with other zip codes.

Where 06093 ranks high

  • Voter turnoutBetter than 94% of zip codes
  • Healthcare accessBetter than 94% of zip codes
  • Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 93% of zip codes
  • Household income$125,860 median, better than 91% of zip codes
  • Internet speedBetter than 90% of zip codes

Where 06093 ranks low

  • Nice weatherabout 56 pleasant days a year, better than only 3% of zip codes
  • State fiscal healthBetter than only 7% of zip codes
  • Cheap childcare$1,463 a month, better than only 8% of zip codes
  • Low property taxBetter than only 12% of zip codes
  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 26% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 06093

A household needs to earn about $117,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 06093 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $125,860, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$117,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$2,722
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $406,097 home
Median rent
$1,279
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$2,071
Property tax$516
Homeowners insurance$135

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses 06093's effective rate of 1.52%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in 06093

06093 runs older than the country.

Median age
49
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
21%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.7
near the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1818%
18 to 3418%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6423%
65 and older21%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 06093.


Who works in 06093, and how

Work in 06093 centers on finance & insurance and professional & technical. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
21%
above the national average
Unemployment
4.6%
about the national average
Job growth
+11.1%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Finance & insurance16%
Professional & technical12%
Education11%
Manufacturing11%
Retail trade11%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 76%
  • Work from home 21%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 4%

Life in 06093

06093 has more restaurants and bars per resident than 96% of zip codes. That concentrates in some parts of 06093 and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
98
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 298.8 per 10,000 residents, more than 96% of zip codes
Coffee shops
13
about 39.6 per 10,000 residents, more than 96% of zip codes

What the weather is like in 06093, month by month

06093 sees roughly 56 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 89 degrees. January highs sit near 41, with lows near 20. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January41°30°20°
April64°50°38°
July89°76°64°
October69°55°44°

Flying in and out of 06093

Bradley International sits about 5 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 3.3 million passengers in 2025, with 92 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
BDL
Bradley International, about 5 miles
Airport size
Medium hub
55th-busiest in the US, 92 nonstop destinations
Average drive
8 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around 06093

Schools across 06093 average an A−, better than 84% of zip codes.

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Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 06093 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


06093 measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare 06093 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Common questions about living in 06093

Is 06093 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 06093 ranks 2,002nd of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on civic engagement, health care access, and what local pay buys, and lowest on the weather and state finances. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 06093 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $406,097. The overall cost of living runs about 0% above the national average. Set against a $125,860 median income, cost of living beats 93% of zip codes.

Is 06093 safe?

Yes, 06093 is safer than 86% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $151 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to 06093. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 06093 represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

06093 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 06093: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 06093: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 06093: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 06093: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

06093 detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.