Eastford has about 1,650 people, it sold sixteen houses last year, and it was the only town in Windham County where the median price went down. Mill rate of 21.20, no fire district, no special taxing district. One PK–8 school with 173 students, and Natchaug State Forest running straight through town. Single-family homes sold at a median of $357,500 in 2025.
I sell all over this county, and Eastford is the one town where I have to explain the numbers before I explain the market. Here's why.
Metric | 2025 | 2024 |
Median sale price, single-family | $357,500 | $365,000 |
Average sale price | $393,219 | $365,207 |
Homes sold | 16 | 15 |
Median days on market | 47 | 21 |
List-to-sale ratio | 99% | 99% |
Full calendar year, single-family. Source: Eastern Connecticut Association of REALTORS®.
Eastford was the only town in Windham County where the median fell in 2025 — down 2.1%, while every other town went up, several of them by double digits. And days on market more than doubled, 21 to 47.
So here's the honest caveat, and it matters more in Eastford than in almost any other town in the county. Sixteen houses sold. Sixteen. Two or three modest homes selling in a year where the prior year happened to include a couple of expensive ones will hand you a "decline" that's really just telling you which houses came to market.
Look at the average. It went up, $365,207 to $393,219, in the same year the median came down. When those two move in opposite directions in a sixteen-sale town, all you're seeing is the mix of what sold.
I'm not going to tell an Eastford seller their home lost value, and I'm not going to tell a buyer this is a soft market. Neither one holds up. What does hold up: homes here take longer to sell than they used to, & when they sell they're still getting about 99% of asking.
Eastford's mill rate is 21.20 on the October 1, 2024 Grand List, for fiscal year 2026. And when you search the state's special taxing district registry for this town, you get nothing back. No fire districts, no lake districts, no service districts.
That's a bigger deal than it sounds. Killingly stacks eight fire districts on top of its base rate. Plainfield has four. Woodstock has three lake districts. Putnam runs a Special Services District worth nearly eight mills. In Eastford, one number is your whole bill.
The rate was 27.50 two years ago, and I get asked about that drop constantly. It wasn't a tax cut. The 2023 revaluation reset assessments upward and the rate came down to match — the town's own assessor page confirms the 2023 revaluation has ended, and the next one is 2028.
Eastford Elementary School is the whole district: PK–8, about 173 students.
There's no high school in town. Most Eastford kids go to The Woodstock Academy, the independent school founded in 1801 that serves as the designated public high school for a group of area towns. Confirm the current tuition arrangement with the Eastford Board of Education instead of assuming it. The Academy doesn't publish its sending-town list, and you want that answer in writing before you buy.
Enrollment figures come from the National Center for Education Statistics.
Natchaug State Forest takes up a big piece of Eastford, including the National Register–listed Natchaug Forest Lumber Shed. The Still River runs through town & powered a twine mill at Phoenixville starting in 1831.
General Nathaniel Lyon (1818–1861) is buried in the family plot here. He was the first Union general killed in the Civil War, at Wilson's Creek in Missouri, and an estimated 15,000 people came to his funeral in Eastford. Think about that for a town this size in 1861. It tells you what his death meant right then.
One small correction, because people repeat it wrong: Lyon is buried in Eastford. Sources disagree about where he was born, and some of them say Ashford. I say "buried in Eastford" and leave the birthplace alone unless you've checked it yourself.
Nobody reviews what you do to the outside of your house. Eastford's Conservation & Historic Preservation Commission is explicitly non-regulatory. Its job is information and education, not certificates of appropriateness. The National Register listings in town are honorary and restrict nothing for private owners. Buy a period house here and want new windows? That's between you and the building official.
Well and septic permits go through the Northeast District Department of Health in Brooklyn. Site investigations, plan review, permits, inspections, searchable records online. Not Town Hall.
PA 490 land classification shows up on a lot of Eastford acreage. It ends when the property sells unless the buyer reapplies, and changing the use within ten years triggers a conveyance penalty that starts at 10% of fair market value. Ask the assessor before you write the offer, not after.
Somewhere you're going to see a headline saying Eastford prices fell last year, and a buyer's agent may hand it to you across the table. Here's what I'd say back.
Sixteen sales can't establish a trend. The average went up while the median went down, and that's the signature of a different mix of houses selling. Sellers here still got 99% of asking, two years running.
What actually changed is speed. 47 days instead of 21. Plan around that. Price it right on day one and be ready for the right buyer to take six or seven weeks to turn up, because in a town of 1,650 that's just how long it takes.
If you want a real number for your house, call me. I'll walk the property, pull the actual comparables instead of the town median, and tell you honestly what I think it brings.
And if part of what you're weighing is whether you need me at all — some people genuinely don't, and I'll tell you so — I wrote a straight piece on selling your house without an agent in Connecticut. It covers where doing it yourself actually works, what AI is genuinely good at now, and why an automated price struggles in a town that closes 16 homes a year.
Single-family homes in Eastford sold at a median of $357,500 in 2025, compared with $365,000 in 2024, across 16 sales. The average sale price rose over the same period, from $365,207 to $393,219. With a sample that small, the median and the average moving opposite ways tells you which houses happened to sell, not that values changed. Source: Eastern Connecticut Association of REALTORS®.
21.20 on the October 1, 2024 Grand List, for fiscal year 2026. Eastford has no fire districts and no special taxing districts, so that single rate is your entire property tax bill. The drop from 27.50 two years earlier came from the 2023 revaluation. The next revaluation is 2028.
Eastford runs a PK–8 school and has no high school of its own. Most students go to The Woodstock Academy. Confirm the current tuition arrangement with the Eastford Board of Education.
The first Union general killed in the Civil War, at Wilson's Creek, Missouri, in 1861. He's buried in the family plot in Eastford, and an estimated 15,000 people attended his funeral there.
No. Eastford's Conservation & Historic Preservation Commission is non-regulatory — its role is information and education. There's no certificate-of-appropriateness process, and National Register listings impose no restriction on private owners.
Eastford borders 5 of the other towns I cover, and people looking here almost always look at a couple of them too. Same guide, same numbers, for each one:
Or see how every town in the county compares side by side in my Windham County real estate guide.
Sources and dates. Sale price, volume, days on market, and list-to-sale: Eastern Connecticut Association of REALTORS®, full-year 2025 and 2024 Windham County town reports. Mill rates, special taxing district registry, and revaluation schedule: Connecticut Office of Policy and Management, October 1, 2024 Grand List, and the Town of Eastford Assessor. School enrollment: National Center for Education Statistics. Natchaug State Forest: Connecticut DEEP. Well and septic: Northeast District Department of Health. PA 490: Connecticut Office of Legislative Research.
Last updated August 2026. Tax rates and market data change — ask me for current numbers.
There's plenty to do around Eastford, including shopping, dining, nightlife, parks, and more. Data provided by Walk Score and Yelp.
Explore popular things to do in the area, including Corner Market, Dollar General, and Green Valley Farm.
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