Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Windham earns a D, 141st of 151 graded towns in Connecticut, mostly because of schools and incomes. Its public schools trail 89% of Connecticut towns on state tests and graduation. The median household income is $56K, and 21% of residents live below the poverty line. What it does well: it is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns. History is its standout character grade: an A+, better than 100% of U.S. towns, with 11 places on the National Register. 21% of residents live below the poverty line in Windham, where Connecticut’s towns sit at 5.8% and U.S. towns at 9.6%. On health, just 4 of Connecticut’s 174 towns do worse. Its National Register listings include Prospect Hill Historic District and Windham Center Historic District.
Where Windham beats most towns.
Census counts: 2,489 in 1820, 24,428 in 2020. The archive holds 5 old photos and papers going back to 1795 and 5 maps from 1892 on.
11 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Connecticut), ordered by how far Windham is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Windham. Close and well known come first.
Big draw28 mi LakeLake Chaubunagungamaug
34 mi National Historic SiteSpringfield Armory National Historic Site14K visitors a year
16 mi Stadium & arenaMohegan Sun Arena
27 mi Stadium & arenaPeoplesBank Arena
23 mi Stadium & arenaPratt & Whitney Stadium
32 mi Theme parkSix Flags New EnglandLake Chaubunagungamaug: Bree from Worcester, MA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Springfield Armory National Historic Site: National Park Service, Public domain · Mohegan Sun Arena: Bbjeter, CC BY-SA 3.0 · PeoplesBank Arena: PeoplesBank Arena, CC BY 2.5 · Pratt & Whitney Stadium: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0 · Six Flags New England: Canadaolympic989, Public domain
Who provides power, water and the rest in Windham, 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 Windham.
Windham is healthier than towns with similar incomes and trades workers with Mansfield and other neighbors, but it has poverty well above the Connecticut rate.
45 miles of trail in 28 parks and preserves. The trail density in Windham is 1.6 miles per square mile. The biggest park or preserve is Beaver Brook State Park, at 343 acres.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Cloutier Memorial Forest | 2 mi | 94 |
| 2. Willimantic Reservoir | 1.8 mi | 194 |
| 3. Natchaug State Forest | 1.8 mi | 165 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Each of its 5 graded neighbors has a higher School Grade than its D, Mansfield highest at A−.
Its public schools are run by the Windham School District. Two of its 9 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windham Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 583 | D |
| Windham High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 633 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CT on state tests and graduation
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 75% of U.S. communities. Since 2005, 2 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Windham.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Against the 7,653 U.S. towns with household incomes like Windham’s, it is healthier than 53%, so its C isn’t only a matter of income. All 5 graded neighbors score healthier than its C, from Franklin (A−) to Coventry (A).
34% of Windham adults get no exercise outside work. Only 8 of the 154 Connecticut towns we compare have a higher share of adults who smoke cigarettes than Windham. 39% of Windham adults sleep under 7 hours.
| Windham | Connecticut towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 34% | 22% | 25% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 12% | 14% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 8.8% | 14% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 6.1% | 8.1% |
| What stands out | Windham | CT |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 15.1% | 9.8% |
| More adults with COPD | 8.2% | 5.6% |
| More adults in fair or poor health | 22.3% | 16.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The typical Windham home is worth about $332,000, up 2.5% in a year, 26% below the Connecticut typical home. 47% of households own their home in Windham. Among 151 Connecticut towns, just 10 have a lower median rent than Windham.
| Windham | Connecticut towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 47% | 81% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,107 a month | $1,451 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Windham has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 83°, January nights drop to 18° and about 39 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Windham has about as many jobs (8,725) as working residents, but only 2,145 people both live and work here.
Among 155 Connecticut towns, just 3 have a lower median household income than Windham. About one in 4 of Windham’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Mansfield (9%), Norwich (4%) and Hartford (3%).
| Windham | Connecticut towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 23% | 11% | 8% |
| Median household income | $56,000 | $109,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 6.1% | 16% | 11% |
| Average trip to work | 24 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
2 within 15 miles of the center of Windham
College town 15 of every 100 Windham residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across Connecticut.
11 places in Windham on the National Register of Historic Places.
16 notable people were born in Windham.
Town in Connecticut, United States
Windham ( WIN-dəm) is a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. It contains the former city of Willimantic as well as the communities of Windham Center, North Windham, and South Windham. Willimantic, an incorporated city since 1893, was consolidated with the town in 1983. The town is part of the Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region. The population was 24,428 at the 2020 census.
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10 towns share a border with Windham.
All 4 graded towns on its borders grade higher than its D; Lebanon (B−) is closest.
| Town | CT rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windham | #141 | D | C+ | — | D | C |
| Mansfield | – | A | C− | — | A− | A− |
| Willimantic | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Coventry | #15 | A | C+ | A | B+ | A |
| Lebanon | #98 | B− | C− | — | B | A− |
| South Windham | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Franklin | — | — | B+ | — | B | A− |
| Columbia | #78 | B | B | — | C+ | A− |
Franklin has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Windham, Mansfield, Lebanon, Franklin and Columbia report no FBI crime data of their own. Willimantic and South Windham aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Windham with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Windham grades D overall, better than 8% of U.S. towns and #141 of 151 in Connecticut. It grades C for health and D for schools. Schools is its weak spot, with a D.
That is 3.8 years of the area's median household income ($86,586 across the Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.
16 notable people were born here, including Samuel Huntington and Eliphalet Dyer.
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