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Moving to East Windsor, CT
$477,250Median listing price
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About East Windsor
East Windsor is a town of about 11,190 people in Hartford County, spread across five villages — Broad Brook, Melrose, Scantic, Warehouse Point, and Windsorville — along the east bank of the Connecticut River. It retains a tobacco-farming heritage (Mulnite Farms, established 1905; shade-grown tobacco fields shown in the Commons photo below) and a mill-town past, and it is where the first dinosaur bones in North America were found in 1818 (an Anchisaurus, now at Yale).
Home prices in East Windsor
The median listing price in East Windsor is $477,250.
Top places in East Windsor
- Connecticut Trolley Museum and Connecticut Fire Museum — in the Warehouse Point section (the trolley museum shown in the Commons photo below).
- Broad Brook Mill and Opera House — the town's historic mill and opera house.
- Warehouse Point — the oldest section, site of William Pynchon's 1636 warehouse.
- Scantic — the old town center, with the East Windsor Academy Museum and the Melrose one-room schoolhouse library.
- Skylark Airport — small airpark for flight training (shown in the Commons photo below).
- Mulnite Farms shade-grown tobacco fields in Windsorville.
Commuting from East Windsor
- East Windsor is halfway between Hartford and Springfield, 12 miles from each; I-91 serves the town with exits 44 and 45, and U.S. Route 5 runs north–south through it (per Wikipedia's East Windsor article, read September 25, 2026).
- No passenger rail in town; Windsor Locks station is the nearest passenger train station. Bradley International Airport is about 5 miles away.
- Approximate drive to downtown Hartford: ~20 minutes (approximate).
East Windsor FAQs
- What is the housing market like in East Windsor, CT?
The median listing price in East Windsor is $477,250. Median listing price · Realtor.com · September 24, 2026 - How is the commute from East Windsor, CT?
East Windsor is halfway between Hartford and Springfield, 12 miles from each; I-91 serves the town with exits 44 and 45, and U.S. Route 5 runs north–south through it (per Wikipedia's East Windsor article, read September 25, 2026).
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Official town resources. School report cards via the Connecticut State Department of Education.