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For most people who can afford it, yes. Avon grades A overall, ranked 19th of 151 in Connecticut. CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 97% of the country. The median household earns $154K and crime is low: it reports less per resident than 82% of U.S. towns. The trade-off is money: the typical home is worth about $582K, 6.1 years of the Hartford metro’s $95K median household income. 73% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Avon, above both the Connecticut town median (45%) and the median of U.S. towns (29%). No town in Connecticut scores lower than Avon on history. The biggest place to walk is Huckleberry Hill Recreation Area, 295 acres with 7.3 miles of trail.
Where Avon beats most towns.
Census counts: 1,025 in 1830, 18,932 in 2020. The archive holds 18 old photos and papers going back to 1889 and 4 maps from 1892 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Connecticut), ordered by how far Avon is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Avon. Close and well known come first.
9 mi Stadium & arenaPeoplesBank Arena
11 mi Theme parkLake Compounce
26 mi National Historic SiteSpringfield Armory National Historic Site14K visitors a year
12 mi Stadium & arenaPratt & Whitney Stadium
21 mi Theme parkSix Flags New England
33 mi Stadium & arenaYale BowlPeoplesBank Arena: PeoplesBank Arena, CC BY 2.5 · Lake Compounce: Wildcat1 at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Springfield Armory National Historic Site: National Park Service, Public domain · Pratt & Whitney Stadium: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0 · Six Flags New England: Canadaolympic989, Public domain · Yale Bowl: Kenneth Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Avon, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 30, 2026.
Ordered by what stands out in Avon.
Avon trades workers with Hartford and other neighbors and is safe by national standards but not by Connecticut’s; it also has homes that cost more against local pay than most of Connecticut.
66 miles of trail in 23 parks and preserves. Avon’s trail density is 2.8 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Huckleberry Hill Recreation Area | 7.3 mi | 295 |
| 2. Found Land Recreation Area | 6.2 mi | 119 |
| 3. Fisher Meadows Recreation Area | 5.2 mi | 231 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its public schools are run by the Avon School District. Three of its 9 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Grove SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–4 | Grades K–4 | 613 | A− |
| Avon High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 946 | A+ |
| Avon Middle SchoolTop results in townGrades 7–8 | Grades 7–8 | 461 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CT on state tests and graduation
Its widest gap with Connecticut is no health insurance: 4.4% of those 18–64 have no health insurance, against 10% statewide.
13% of Avon adults report frequent mental distress. Avon beats the Connecticut average on 23 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 2. 85% of Avon adults had a checkup this year.
| Avon | Connecticut towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 15% | 17% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 85% | 81% | 79% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 7.2% | 9.7% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 12% | 14% |
| What stands out | Avon | CT |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 4.4% | 10% |
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 4.5% | 9.8% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.5% | 8.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
At 7.6 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports less crime than 70% of Connecticut’s graded towns. Violent crime is rare: 2 reported in 2025, 0.1 per 1,000 residents.
Among 90 Connecticut towns, just 9 have a lower violent crime rate than Avon. The property crime rate in Avon is 6.5 per 1,000 residents.
| Avon | Connecticut towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.1 per 1,000 residents | 0.4 | 1.6 |
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 6.5 per 1,000 residents | 9.7 | 9.9 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
At 6.1 years of the Hartford metro’s $95K median household income, the typical home (about $582K) costs more against local pay than in 79% of Connecticut towns; that ratio is one input to its D for cost of living.
Typical home values rose 4.8% in the year to September 2026. 85% of households own their home in Avon.
| Avon | Connecticut towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,857 a month | $1,448 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 85% | 81% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Avon has chilly, snowy winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 18° and about 39 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Avon has about as many jobs (7,932) as working residents, but only 762 people both live and work here. 33.7% of workers work from home, against 16% across Connecticut.
Most working residents leave Avon for work: only 10% work in town. Since 2013, Avon has added 1,010 jobs, to 7,932 in 2023. Only 6 of the 155 Connecticut towns we compare have a higher share of workers working from home than Avon.
| Avon | Connecticut towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 34% | 15% | 11% |
| Median household income | $154,000 | $109,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 4.8% | 5.8% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 25 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 62% of U.S. communities. Since 1982, 10 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Avon.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
9 within 15 miles of the center of Avon
About 6 of every 100 Avon residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Connecticut.
18.4% of the town is conserved land, across 23 parks and preserves.
2 places in Avon on the National Register of Historic Places.
7 notable people were born in Avon.
Town in Connecticut, United States
Avon ( AY-vahn) is a town in the Farmington Valley region of the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, United States. As of 2020, the town had a population of 19,795.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
7 towns share a border with Avon.
It grades higher overall than all 6 graded towns on its borders; Simsbury (A) comes closest.
| Town | CT rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avon | #19 | A | D | A− | A− | A+ |
| Burlington | #55 | B+ | C | — | B+ | A |
| Simsbury | #21 | A | D | A− | A− | A+ |
| Farmington | #29 | A− | D | B− | A | A+ |
| Canton | #24 | A− | C− | A− | B+ | A |
| Collinsville | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| West Hartford | #80 | B | D | C | B+ | A+ |
| Bloomfield | #128 | C | C− | C+ | C− | B+ |
Burlington reports no FBI crime data of its own. Collinsville isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Avon with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Avon grades A overall, better than 87% of U.S. towns and #19 of 151 in Connecticut. It grades A+ for health, A− for safety and A− for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.
7 notable people were born here, including Joseph Alsop and Kia McNeill.
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