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Chester Center CDP, Connecticut: commercial real estate data.
Chester Center CDP is a Census CDP of 2,026 people across 2.68 square miles of land, in Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region. Median household income is $89,375, 69.2 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Chester Center
What Chester Center is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area2.68 sq mi
- Water area0.03 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land757
- County holding the largest share of its areaLower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chester Center
How many people live in Chester Center
- Population2,026
- Median age44.9 plus or minus 13.7
- Population under 18356 plus or minus 119
- Share under 1817.6 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Population 65 and over682 plus or minus 162
- Share 65 and over33.7 percent
- Households866
- Family households575 plus or minus 125
- Share of households that are families66.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chester Center
Income and work in Chester Center
- Median household income$89,375 plus or minus $43,353
- Per capita income$52,377 plus or minus $13,556
- Civilian labor force1,037 plus or minus 265
- Employed996 plus or minus 264
- Unemployed41 plus or minus 35
- Unemployment rate4.0 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Adults 25 and over1,491
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher40.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree21.3 percent plus or minus 6.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chester Center
Housing in Chester Center
- Housing units940
- Occupied units866
- Vacant units74 plus or minus 79
- Vacancy rate7.9 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Owner occupied599 plus or minus 128
- Renter occupied267 plus or minus 102
- Ownership rate69.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$422,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,473 plus or minus $358
- Annual rent as a share of median income19.8 percent plus or minus 10.7
- Single family units762
- Share single family81.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more178 plus or minus 93
- Share in buildings of two or more18.9 percent plus or minus 9.5
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1960
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chester Center
How Chester Center gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute784 plus or minus 216
- Commuting under 15 minutes217 plus or minus 116
- Share commuting under 15 minutes27.7 percent plus or minus 12.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more196 plus or minus 83
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more25.0 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Drove alone69.9 percent
- Carpooled7.9 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Public transport0.5 percent plus or minus 2.1
- Walked1.2 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Worked from home19.9 percent plus or minus 9.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, not Chester Center
Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region context, not Chester Center figures
These are Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Chester Center measurements.
- Establishments in Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region4,489
- Employment at those establishments, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region65,436
- Covered employment, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region73,682
- Average annual pay, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region$70,364
- Average weekly wage, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region$1,353
- Housing units permitted, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region269
- Of those, single family, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region174
- County product, 2024, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region$16,096,041,000
- Average income of an arriving household, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region$95,877
Every figure in this section is published for Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region as a whole and is not a measurement of Chester Center. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Chester Center questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Chester Center, Connecticut?
2,026, in 866 households. Chester Center CDP covers 2.68 square miles of land, which is 757 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Chester Center in?
Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Chester Center?
$89,375. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $422,500. Median gross rent is $1,473 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Chester Center figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Chester Center.
Is zoning published for Chester Center?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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