Fairfield town, CT

Key HUD figures for Fairfield town, CT

Fair Market Rents by bedroom

HUD income limits by household size

Top of a 24-town plateau, not the top of a gradient

Rank 1 of 169, shared with 23 other towns

Connecticut's two-bedroom Fair Market Rents cluster on a handful of values rather than spreading across a range. Only seven distinct two-bedroom figures cover all 169 Connecticut town records: fifty-five towns publish $1,865, twenty-four publish $2,511, twenty-one publish $1,616, nineteen publish $1,788, nineteen publish $1,866, sixteen publish $1,601 and fifteen publish $1,969.

That makes the gap between first place and second place unusually large: the next value below $2,511 is $1,969; Fairfield's $2,511 figure is 27.5% above it. A town one rank down is not marginally cheaper on paper — it is in a different band entirely. It also means rank 1 describes a plateau of 24 towns rather than a leader.

The 24 towns on that plateau are drawn from 17 different HUD areas: sixteen single-town Exception Areas and the Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury MSA, which covers Bethel town and seven others. Despite the separate areas, all 24 share the same $156,800 area median family income, so their income limits are identical too. Separate HUD areas do not have to produce different figures, and in this corner of Connecticut they do not.

Rent benchmark vs HUD Median Family Income

A single-town Exception Area, inside a planning region

Why this page says planning region, and what an Exception Area is

Connecticut's eight counties, in the Census Bureau's words, "ceased to function as governmental and administrative entities in 1960", and from the 2022 American Community Survey the state's nine Councils of Governments — its planning regions — became the county-equivalent geography for federal statistics (census.gov, accessed 19 August 2026). This record's parent is therefore the Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, which also contains Bridgeport town, Easton, Monroe, Stratford and Trumbull.

The HUD area is a separate construct again. An Exception Area is a rent area HUD draws apart from the surrounding metro, and Connecticut has 25 of them among its 32 HUD areas; corpus-wide they appear only in Connecticut, New York and Puerto Rico. Neighbouring towns in the same planning region can each hold their own — Bridgeport town is its own Exception Area too, with figures identical to these.

None of this changes what the numbers are; it changes what they are numbers about. The rent and income limits on this page describe the Fairfield town area, not the planning region and not the metro. At the far end of the state, Union town publishes Connecticut's lowest two-bedroom rent at $1,601 — yet against its own $126,500 area income that is a 15.2% benchmark, below Fairfield's 19.2%. Lower rent does not automatically mean a lower share of local income.

National economic context

The figures below are federal and national. They are not specific to Fairfield town and do not vary between county subdivisions.

Inflation (official BLS CPI-U national series)

Purchasing power decision engine

IRS reference

Publication 15-T (2026) — Federal Income Tax Withholding Methods. Official IRS publication →

Reference only. GovCalculator does not compute federal income tax withholding. The publication's withholding methods and tables are not ingested or modelled here.

Sources & methodology

HUD income limits and Fair Market Rents are taken from the fiscal-year tables HUD publishes per HUD-defined area — which can include more than one county subdivision — and joined to this county-subdivision record. State comparisons are computed across the 2BR Fair Market Rents of the county-subdivision records in the same state; county subdivisions are never ranked against counties. The median uses the middle value and is not weighted by households or population, rank 1 is the highest rent in the state, and county-subdivision records with identical rents share a rank.

The income figure used throughout this page is HUD's Median Family Income for the HUD area above. It is not a Census median household income and the two are not interchangeable.

The CPI-U series is the official BLS CUUR0000SA0 index, not seasonally adjusted, taken from the published BLS series: 36 published monthly observations. Months BLS did not publish are not interpolated. IRS Publication 15-T is cited as an official reference only — no federal withholding is calculated anywhere on this site.

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