Taxes & Income

What Hampton taxes, at what rate, what that costs per resident, and how it sits against local incomes.

MILL RATE FY 2025-26
ACS 2024 RELEASE
PULLED 2026-08-10

Mill rate 21.48 mills Posted real estate and personal property rate, FY 2025-26. This town posts a separate motor vehicle rate. A mill is $1 of tax per $1,000 of assessed value; Connecticut assesses at 70% of market value. A posted rate cannot be compared with another town’s, or with this town’s own rate across a revaluation — the equalized rate beside it can. CT OPM Mill Rates (emyx-j53e).

Equalized mill rate 11.82 millsRANK 21 / 169 31% below the statewide median of 17.18 mills The levy restated against the market value of the town’s property, FY 2022-23. CT OPM Municipal Fiscal Indicators (ej6f-y2wf). The equalized rate restates the levy against the market value of the town's property. The posted rate is not comparable between towns or across a revaluation; this one is.

Net grand list $216.2M Assessed value of all taxable property, grand list year 2024. CT OPM Net Grand List by Town (webp-fgt3).

Median household income $109,167 ACS 5-year estimate, 2024 release — a rolling five-year survey average, not a single year. US Census Bureau, table B19013.

Median home value $295,800 ACS 5-year estimate, 2024 release. Owner-reported value, not an assessment. US Census Bureau, table B25077.

Before you read these charts.

Audited actuals — Audited actuals are what a town actually spent and received across all its governmental funds, as reported after the year closed. They are not the budget the town adopted.
Mill rate — A mill is $1 of tax per $1,000 of assessed value. Connecticut assesses property at 70% of market value, so a posted rate is not comparable between towns.
Peer groups — A peer group is a tool for a specific question, not a verdict. A group that is right for comparing school spending can be wrong for comparing snow plowing. Where two defensible groups disagree, this site shows both.
The grand list — The grand list is the assessed value of all taxable property in a town. It is dated October 1 and pays for the fiscal year starting the following July, so it always runs a year ahead of the budget it funds.
Medians, and why the town is left out of its own — A group is summarized by its median — the middle town, not the average. The subject town is excluded from its own group median, because a town cannot be part of the benchmark it is measured against.
Revaluation — Every Connecticut town revalues its property on a five-year cycle. When values rise, the grand list grows and the posted mill rate steps down — even if the town collects exactly the same amount of tax.

14 terms bear on this page; the 6 most used are above. Full definitions, what each measure does not support, and the source behind it: How these numbers work.

About the figures on this page.

Special taxing districts are not included. The rates here are the municipality's own. Property inside a fire, sewer or other special taxing district, or inside a borough, is charged that district's rate in addition to the town rate.
A levy divided by residents is not a tax bill. The levy used on the income charts applies the town's posted real-estate mill rate to the non-vehicle part of its taxable grand list and the town's motor-vehicle mill rate to the vehicle part, then divides the two together — homes, businesses, land and vehicles — by every resident. Connecticut caps the motor-vehicle mill rate by statute, separately from the real-estate rate, which is why the two rates are applied to their own shares of the list rather than one rate to the whole of it. It puts towns on one basis; it is not an estimate of what any household pays.

Has the tax rate gone up?

Equalized mill rate over time

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Source: CT OPM Municipal Fiscal Indicators (ej6f-y2wf), field equalized_mill_rate, from data.ct.gov. Peer lines are the median of each group, not a total or an average. This town is excluded from its own group medians.

What rate does the town post?

Posted (nominal) mill rate over time

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Source: CT OPM Mill Rates (emyx-j53e), fields real_estate_personal and grand_list_year, from data.ct.gov, as packaged in /data/ct_mill_rates.json. Peer lines are the median of each group's own posted rates, not a ratio of medians; this town is excluded from its own group medians. Where OPM files a rate of zero, that town-year is carried as missing rather than charted as zero; some of those gaps are filled from OPM's adopted-budget summary (pcg4-s5rc), and every filled cell names that dataset in the payload. Where this file and the Municipal Fiscal Indicators file disagree on a town-year, both figures are published in the payload metadata and neither is silently preferred.

Notes

The rate the town posts each year, against the median of the posted rates in its surrounding towns and in its DRG peer group. This series runs to , later than the audited-actuals file behind the equalized chart above, so the most recent years here have no equalized counterpart on this page. This is not a burden trend. A posted rate steps down in the year a revaluation takes effect without the tax burden changing, and the peer medians are medians of other towns' posted rates, so the distance between the lines moves with where each town sits in its revaluation cycle as well as with tax decisions. The equalized chart above is the comparable one.

Why a posted rate cannot be compared

A posted mill rate is set against a town’s own assessed values, so it cannot be compared with another town’s, or with this town’s own rate across a revaluation. When values are revalued upward the posted rate can fall while the tax bill rises. The equalized rate is the one that can be compared. See mill rate and revaluation.

What a step down in a posted rate can mean

A step down in a posted rate can come from a revaluation rather than from a smaller levy, so this series shows the rate the town set, not the change in what it collects. The equalized chart above is the one that holds revaluation timing constant.

Why do the two rates differ?

Nominal vs. equalized mill rate — peer towns

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Source: CT OPM Municipal Fiscal Indicators (ej6f-y2wf), fields mill_rate_real_estate_personal (nominal) and equalized_mill_rate, from data.ct.gov. Towns with no equalized rate reported for this year are omitted.

How does the rate compare with similar towns?

Posted (nominal) mill rate — peer towns, most recent year

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Source: CT OPM Mill Rates (emyx-j53e), fields real_estate_personal and grand_list_year, from data.ct.gov, as packaged in /data/ct_mill_rates.json. Peer towns with no rate published for this year are omitted. Hover a bar for the October 1 grand list the rate is laid against. Some cells in this file are filled from OPM's adopted-budget summary (pcg4-s5rc), and every filled cell names that dataset in the payload. Where this file and the Municipal Fiscal Indicators file disagree on a town-year, both figures are published in the payload metadata and neither is silently preferred.

Notes

Each peer town's posted real-estate mill rate for , the most recent year the rate file publishes, lowest first. This is a later year than the equalized chart above can reach. Read it as posted rates, not as relative tax burden: each town's rate is laid against its own grand list, and a town that revalued recently posts a lower rate for the same levy than a town that has not. The nominal-vs-equalized chart above is the like-for-like comparison. Bars are colored by group: this town, its surrounding towns, and its DRG peers.

Why two posted rates are not directly comparable

Posted rates are laid against each town’s own grand list, and towns revalue in different years, so a difference between two bars mixes tax decisions with revaluation timing. The nominal-vs-equalized chart above restates the same towns against market value.

Where does the rate sit among all Connecticut towns?

Equalized mill rate — every Connecticut town ranked

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Source: CT OPM Municipal Fiscal Indicators (ej6f-y2wf), fields equalized_mill_rate and mill_rate_real_estate_personal, from data.ct.gov. Groton (City) is excluded: it is a sub-municipality reported separately from Groton and has no equalized rate reported. Towns with no equalized rate reported for this year are also omitted, so the count of ranked towns can be below 169. A revaluation factor near 0.70 indicates a grand list set at a recent revaluation; a lower factor indicates market values have risen since the town last revalued, a higher factor that they have fallen.

Notes

Every town in the state ranked by equalized mill rate for the most recent fiscal year OPM reports, lowest rate first. Bars are shaded light to dark by quartile of rate level, which is a scale and not a rating; this town's bar carries a dark border and its label is bold. Hover any bar for that town's nominal rate and its revaluation factor (equalized ÷ nominal). A statewide ranking does not hold income, density, or service mix constant, so it is context rather than a like-for-like comparison — the peer chart above is the closer comparison.

What a rank on this measure does not account for

Rank on this measure reflects the tax cost per $1,000 of market value; it does not account for household income, density, or which services a town provides, all of which vary widely across Connecticut’s towns.

What kinds of property is the town taxing?

Grand list by assessment class

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Source: CT OPM Net Grand List by Town (webp-fgt3), fields residential, commercial, land, motor_vehicle, personal and class_total, from data.ct.gov. Shares are taken against class_total — the five classes summed — and not against net_grand_list.

Notes

What the town's taxable property is made of, as a share of the assessed value on each grand list. Residential covers houses and apartments; commercial covers commercial, industrial and public-utility property; land is vacant, land-use and ten-mill land; then registered motor vehicles and business personal property.

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Residential share of assessed value (five classes)

What a class share does and does not tell you about who pays

Under a single town-wide rate, each class’s share of assessed value is roughly its share of the levy. Residential here includes apartment property as well as owner-occupied homes, and Connecticut applies a separate capped rate to registered motor vehicles, so these shares are not a precise split of who pays. Shares are of the five classes summed (class_total), which is the only denominator the class columns reconcile against.

Has the tax base kept up with prices?

Grand list growth against inflation

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Source: CT OPM Net Grand List by Town (webp-fgt3), fields residential, commercial, land, motor_vehicle, personal, class_total and net_grand_list, from data.ct.gov; inflation from US Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U, US city average, all items, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SA0 (data.bls.gov), annual averages only, packaged as /data/us_cpi_u.json. The index is built on class_total — the five classes summed — because that is the only denominator the class columns reconcile against; the same window measured on net_grand_list is reported in the box above wherever the source publishes it at both ends.

Notes

The same five assessment classes as the chart above, stacked as index points instead of shares: each segment is that class’s assessed value measured against the town’s first published grand list, so the top of the stack is the whole list and 100 is where it started. The dashed line is the US consumer price index over the same calendar years, also starting at 100. Where the stack sits below the line the list grew slower than consumer prices; where it sits above, faster.

Why the shape is a staircase rather than a slope. Connecticut freezes a property’s assessed value between revaluations: under CGS §12-62a the assessment does not follow the market until the town revalues, and CGS §12-62 requires a revaluation every five years. In between, a town’s list can only grow from new construction, newly registered vehicles and business personal property. A revaluation then resets every property at once — upward or downward, depending on what the market did since the last one. So a grand list moves in occasional steps while consumer prices move every year, and the two lines can sit far apart in the middle of a cycle without either one having done anything unusual.

Why this is two series rather than a verdict

A grand list is not indexed to inflation and is not designed to track it: an assessment follows the property market as of the revaluation date, and property values and consumer prices are different things that can move apart for years. The size of the list also does not by itself set what the town collects — the levy is set by the adopted budget and the mill rate moves to raise it against whatever the list is, so a larger list means a lower rate for the same levy and a smaller one a higher rate. CPI-U is a consumer price index; municipal cost indices have run above it, which would widen any shortfall and narrow any surplus. A class moves the whole list only in proportion to its share of it, so a large percentage on a small class shifts the total far less than the same percentage on the largest one.

Does the assessed value follow the market?

Grand list growth — taxable value against market value

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Source: assessed figures from CT OPM Net Grand List by Town (webp-fgt3), field net_grand_list, from data.ct.gov; market-value figures from CT OPM Equalized Net Grand List by Town (8rr8-a322), field equalized_grand_list, as packaged in /data/ct_equalized_rates.json. Both are keyed to the October 1 grand list year on the axis, not to a fiscal year. This chart uses net_grand_list, which subtracts the exemptions the class columns above are gross of, so it is a different measure of the list from the one the two charts above index. Neither series is adjusted for inflation; the chart above sets the assessed list against consumer prices.

Notes

The same taxable property on its two bases, one grand list year per point. Net taxable grand list is the assessed value the mill rate is applied to, and it holds still between revaluations for the reason set out above. Equalized grand list is CT OPM’s estimate of that property at full market value in every year, which is why it can move while assessments stand still. The two sit at different levels by design — 70% of value against 100% — so what the chart compares is the shape of the two lines, not the distance between them. Where the town’s own revaluation file is published, the grand lists set at a revaluation are drawn as larger points. A larger grand list is not by itself a higher or a lower tax bill: the levy is set by the adopted budget, and the mill rate is laid against whatever the list is.

Why the distance between the two lines is not a finding

They are different bases for the same property — 70% of appraised value as of the last revaluation against 100% of market value each year — so the distance between them is not a finding, and neither figure is a tax bill. Neither series is adjusted for inflation.

What share of a town’s income does the levy take?

Property tax levy per resident and household income

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Source: levy from CT OPM Municipal Fiscal Indicators (ej6f-y2wf), fields net_grand_list and population_state_dept_of_public_health, and CT OPM Mill Rates (emyx-j53e), fields real_estate_personal and motor_vehicle; the vehicle share of the list from CT OPM Net Grand List by Town (webp-fgt3), fields motor_vehicle and class_total; income from US Census ACS 5-year table B19013 (variable B19013_001E), packaged as median_household_income in /data/ct_town_income.json. The levy is computed by splitting the net grand list into its motor-vehicle share and the rest, applying real_estate_personal to the non-vehicle part and motor_vehicle to the vehicle part, then dividing the two together by 1,000 and by population. Connecticut caps the motor-vehicle mill rate by statute, separately from the real-estate rate, which is why the two rates are applied to their own shares of the list; the shares are read from the October 1 grand list each rate is laid against. The result is the amount the rates lay against the taxable list, not the amount a town collected, and it excludes special-district rates. A town is plotted only where the grand list, the rate, the population and the income figure all exist for the same fiscal year. Some rate cells are filled from OPM's adopted-budget summary (pcg4-s5rc), and every filled cell names that dataset in the payload; where the rate file and the Municipal Fiscal Indicators file disagree on a town-year, both figures are published in the payload metadata and neither is silently preferred. The dashed line is a least-squares fit through the plotted points — a summary of the scatter, not a prediction for any town.

Notes

One point per Connecticut town. Across the bottom is median household income from the most recent American Community Survey five-year release (). Up the side is the property tax levy per resident for — the town's net grand list taxed at its posted real-estate mill rate on the non-vehicle share of that list and at its capped motor-vehicle mill rate on the vehicle share, divided by its population, with the grand list, both rates and the population taken from that same fiscal year. This town is drawn large; its surrounding towns and DRG peers are colored by group and every other town is neutral gray. The two axes come from different periods: the ACS release pools five years of survey responses and is not the same window as the fiscal year of the levy.

What a scatter can and cannot show

Two figures moving together is not one causing the other. The dashed line is a least-squares fit through the plotted points — a summary of the scatter, not a prediction for any town. Income is an ACS 5-year estimate — a rolling survey average with a margin of error, not a single audited year. See ACS estimates.

How the levy per resident is built, and what it is not

The levy applies each town’s posted real-estate rate to the non-vehicle share of its grand list and its capped motor-vehicle rate to the vehicle share, so it counts commercial, land and motor vehicle property alongside homes, and dividing it by every resident is a way to put towns on one basis rather than an estimate of a household bill. Income comes from a five-year survey release covering a different period from the fiscal year of the levy, and carries a margin of error that is not drawn here.

Where does that share sit among all towns?

Levy per resident as a share of median household income

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Source: the same inputs as the chart above — CT OPM Municipal Fiscal Indicators (ej6f-y2wf), fields net_grand_list and population_state_dept_of_public_health; CT OPM Mill Rates (emyx-j53e), fields real_estate_personal and motor_vehicle; CT OPM Net Grand List by Town (webp-fgt3), fields motor_vehicle and class_total, for the vehicle share of the list; US Census ACS 5-year table B19013, field median_household_income. The levy applies the posted real-estate rate to the non-vehicle share of the grand list and the motor-vehicle rate to the vehicle share, because Connecticut caps the motor-vehicle mill rate by statute, separately from the real-estate rate. Numerator and denominator are per-resident and per-household respectively, so the ratio is a comparison index rather than an effective tax rate on income. Some rate cells are filled from OPM's adopted-budget summary (pcg4-s5rc), and every filled cell names that dataset in the payload; where the rate file and the Municipal Fiscal Indicators file disagree on a town-year, both figures are published in the payload metadata and neither is silently preferred.

Notes

The same levy per resident, divided by the town's median household income and shown as a percentage, with every town ranked lowest first. The measure divides a town-wide levy — residential, commercial, land and vehicles together — by a household median, so it is an indicator of relative load rather than any household's actual bill: households differ in size, in what they own, and in whether they own at all.

Why this is a relative indicator, not a household’s share of income

The numerator is a town-wide levy divided by every resident and the denominator is a household median, so the two sides count different units: this is an indicator of relative load across towns, not the share of income any household pays in property tax. A household’s own bill depends on what it owns, and renters pay property tax indirectly through rent rather than directly. Income is a five-year survey estimate from a different period than the fiscal year of the levy.

Which kinds of property carry the levy?

Tax levy by property type

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Source: CT OPM Tax Levy by Municipality and Special Tax District (he33-brru), fields net_real_property_tax_levy, net_personal_prop_tax_levy, net_motor_vehicle_tax_levy and supplemental_mv, from data.ct.gov, packaged in /data/ct_equalized_rates.json. Each share is that figure divided by the four summed, so the supplemental motor-vehicle bills, which the state reports beside the town’s total rather than inside it, are counted with the rest. The statewide median is taken one property type at a time across every town with a breakdown that year, this town included, so the four medians need not add to exactly 100. A year is left blank where the state’s town-wide row was a zero, a blank or a partial filing (a consolidated city billing most of its levy through internal districts); in the payload the town’s total for such a year is filled from OPM’s adopted-budget summary (pcg4-s5rc), which has no breakdown. Where the state’s three property-type figures do not add to its own total for a town-year, the payload lists the row and the shares here are taken over the three figures themselves. Special taxing districts are not included.

Notes

What share of the property tax this town billed each fiscal year fell on real property (land and buildings), on personal property (business equipment and the like), on the motor vehicles on its October 1 list, and on supplemental motor-vehicle bills. The solid bar is this town; the lighter bar beside it is the statewide median share of each type in the same year. This is a split of what was billed, not of who paid it: a business’s building is real property, and a renter’s home is billed to the landlord.

Why a smaller motor-vehicle share can be the rate cap, not fewer cars

Connecticut caps the motor-vehicle mill rate by statute (CGS § 12-71e): 32.46 mills since the October 1, 2021 grand list (FY 2022-23), and 45 mills for the four years before that. A town whose real-property rate is above the cap bills vehicles at the cap and receives a state grant toward the revenue the cap removes, so its motor-vehicle share of the levy is lower than the vehicle share of its grand list, and a change in the cap moves the share without any change in what residents own. From the October 1, 2024 list (FY 2025-26) vehicles are also valued on a statutory depreciation schedule from the manufacturer’s suggested retail price instead of a price guide, which moves the share again. Read a falling or rising motor-vehicle share against both before reading it as a change in the number or value of vehicles.

Supplemental motor-vehicle bills

A vehicle registered after the October 1 grand list is billed on a supplemental list, prorated for the part of the year it was owned. The state reports that billing beside the town’s total rather than inside it, so it is drawn here as its own slice, and the total levy in the data table on this page does not include it.

What are incomes and home values in this town?

Household income and home value

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Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B19013 (variable B19013_001E, packaged as median_household_income) and B25077 (variable B25077_001E, packaged as median_home_value), in /data/ct_town_income.json. Peer lines are the median of each group's own town values; this town is excluded from its own group medians. Home value is the median value of owner-occupied housing units and is not a sale price.

Notes

This town's median household income across the American Community Survey five-year releases, against the median of its surrounding towns and the median of its DRG peers, with the town's median home value on the right-hand axis. Each release pools five years of responses, so adjacent points overlap by four years and the change between them is not annual change. The dollars are those of each release year and are not adjusted for inflation, so part of any rise is price level rather than purchasing power.

What an ACS estimate is

A rolling five-year survey average, not a count and not a single year, carrying a margin of error that is wider in a small town. A home value here is what owners report, not an assessment. See ACS estimates.

Why the difference between two releases is not annual change

Each release pools five years of responses and the two shown overlap, so the difference between them is not annual change. Both figures are in dollars of their own release year and are not adjusted for inflation, so part of any movement is the price level rather than purchasing power, and each is a survey estimate whose margin of error is not drawn here.

Who lives in the town’s households?

Households, and households with children

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Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B11001 (household type), B11005 (households by presence of people under 18) and B25002 (occupancy status), for Census county subdivisions, which in Connecticut are the towns — packaged as /data/ct_town_households.json by Data/fetch_ct_town_households.py. Estimates are published with a 90% margin of error and both are carried; the bands are those margins. Whether two estimates are called distinguishable here is decided by the simplest available rule — whether their 90% intervals overlap. That rule is deliberately conservative and is not a formal significance test; the Census Bureau advises against testing overlapping five-year releases against each other at all, which is a further reason to read small movements as unmeasured rather than as change.

Notes

A household is an occupied housing unit — one household per occupied home, whoever lives in it. The solid lines are the town’s estimated household count and the number of those households with one or more people under 18 living in them. The shaded bands are the Census Bureau’s own 90% margin of error on each estimate, and they are the point of the chart as much as the lines are: these come from a survey of a sample of addresses, not a count of all of them, and for a town of a few thousand households the margin is often about as large as the change between two releases.

Three things this chart is not. It is not a count of people — average household size has fallen for decades, so a town can hold population steady, have fewer children, and still gain households. It is not school enrollment — a household with children counts one household whether it has one child or four, and counts children who are not in the district’s schools. And consecutive points are not independent: a five-year estimate labeled the latest release pools survey responses from the five years ending there, so neighboring releases share four of their five years and the gap between them is not one year of change.

Read the bands before the lines

Where two shaded bands overlap, the survey is not telling you the two figures differ — it is telling you it cannot separate them. A movement smaller than the band is not a small change; it is an unmeasured one, and it can point either way. These are also not counts of people or of schoolchildren: households can rise while the people per household and the number of children both fall, and all three of those have happened somewhere in Connecticut over these releases.

How much of the tax base is business?

Businesses and jobs located in town

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Source: Connecticut Department of Labor, Office of Research — Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, dataset 7zu6-8dcr ("QCEW by NAICS (2 level) and Towns") on data.ct.gov, fields annavgestabs, annavgemp and naics2, packaged as /data/ct_qcew_towns.json. The totals use the source’s "Total — All Industries" row (naics2 00); that row and "Total — All Private Industries" (05) are totals rather than sectors, so the sector breakdown excludes both and the sectors do not sum to the total.

Notes

Establishments are the bars, on the left axis; jobs are the line, on the right. Unlike the household estimates above, this is a census rather than a survey — it comes from the filings every employer covered by unemployment insurance is required to make, so there is no sampling error and a difference between two years is a real difference in what was filed.

What is inside the count and what is outside it. An establishment is a worksite, not a business: a firm with three locations in town counts three times, and a firm based elsewhere with one office in town counts once. Coverage is limited to employment covered by unemployment insurance, so sole proprietors and partners without employees, most independent contractors, and some agricultural and domestic work are absent — the self-employed do not appear here at all. And these are jobs located in the town, not jobs held by its residents: people who commute out are not counted, and people who commute in are.

What this does and does not count

An establishment is a worksite, so one firm on three sites counts three times. Employers outside unemployment insurance — the self-employed with no employees, most independent contractors — are not here at all, which means this is not a count of everyone working for themselves in town. And the jobs are jobs sited here, not jobs held by residents; in a town most of whose workers commute out, the two are very different numbers.

The data behind these charts

Hampton’s own series behind the charts on this page, as text. Each table names the dataset it came from and the year of every row. The peer towns and group medians the charts also plot are not repeated here; they are in the same source files, linked in the footer.

Posted mill rate by fiscal year

Posted mill rate by fiscal year for Hampton, Connecticut
Fiscal year	Real estate and personal property	Motor vehicle	Grand list year
FY 2013-14	24.80	24.80	2012
FY 2014-15	29.73	29.73	2013
FY 2015-16	30.51	30.51	2014
FY 2016-17	28.50	28.50	2015
FY 2017-18	28.50	28.50	2016
FY 2018-19	28.50	28.50	2017
FY 2019-20	25.82	25.82	2018
FY 2020-21	25.50	25.50	2019
FY 2021-22	23.77	23.77	2020
FY 2022-23	22.49	22.49	2021
FY 2023-24	24.24	24.24	2022
FY 2024-25	20.83	20.83	2023
FY 2025-26	21.48	21.48	2024

A mill is $1 of tax per $1,000 of assessed value, and Connecticut assesses property at 70% of market value. A revaluation steps the posted rate down in that year even when the town collects the same amount of tax, so posted rates are not comparable across a revaluation or between towns. Source: CT OPM, Mill Rates (emyx-j53e).

Tax levy by property type, total tax levy and equalized mill rate by fiscal year

Tax levy by property type, total tax levy and equalized mill rate by fiscal year for Hampton, Connecticut
Fiscal year	Real property levy	Personal property levy	Motor vehicle levy	Total tax levy	Equalized mill rate
FY 2018-19	$3,077,627	$468,248	$407,612	$3,953,486	17.47
FY 2020-21	$2,908,161	$487,796	$395,975	$3,791,932	15.55
FY 2021-22	$2,728,255	$778,293	$377,085	$3,883,634	12.72
FY 2022-23	$2,598,688	$815,884	$441,778	$3,856,350	11.70
FY 2023-24	$2,796,517	$783,062	$663,166	$4,242,745	14.21
FY 2024-25	$3,490,901	$646,885	$418,674	$4,556,461	14.55
FY 2025-26	$3,625,764	$404,326	$368,856	$4,398,946	12.02
FY 2026-27	$3,670,939	$395,852	$374,262	$4,441,053	not reported

The three property-type levies are what the town reported billing on land and buildings, on business equipment and other personal property, and on the vehicles on its October 1 list; they sum to the total. Supplemental motor-vehicle bills, for vehicles registered after October 1, are billed separately and are not in the total. Where a year's breakdown reads "Not reported", the state's row for that year was a partial filing or a zero and the total comes from the town's adopted budget instead, which has no breakdown. The equalized rate restates the levy against the market value of the town's property. That is what makes rates comparable between towns and across a revaluation; the posted rate above is not. Source: CT OPM, Tax Levy by Municipality and Special Tax District (he33-brru) and Equalized Net Grand List (8rr8-a322).

Net grand list by assessment class and grand list year

Net grand list by assessment class and grand list year for Hampton, Connecticut
Grand list year	Net grand list	Residential	Commercial	Motor vehicle	Personal property
2011	$154,233,737	$128,189,480	$2,411,590	$13,713,560	$3,063,297
2012	not reported	$129,211,620	$2,427,180	$13,928,775	$3,318,622
2013	$125,064,590	$100,900,085	$1,949,740	$14,176,110	$3,873,620
2014	$125,742,991	$101,515,010	$1,945,570	$13,993,455	$4,241,091
2015	$137,754,221	$101,560,000	$1,930,250	$14,011,340	$16,292,581
2016	$140,063,946	$102,061,745	$1,931,000	$14,119,940	$17,522,196
2017	$140,175,885	$102,933,445	$1,929,840	$14,419,290	$16,484,095
2018	$147,576,350	$106,652,310	$3,311,260	$15,090,080	$17,658,260
2019	$150,186,640	$107,103,730	$3,462,300	$15,712,180	$19,138,510
2020	$164,826,100	$107,586,000	$3,462,300	$15,995,460	$32,748,700
2021	$171,622,240	$108,370,430	$3,416,030	$19,750,440	$35,197,700
2022	$177,415,470	$108,415,540	$3,419,050	$27,598,650	$33,361,680
2023	$219,260,910	$157,967,450	$4,577,100	$20,019,600	$31,084,290
2024	$216,248,060	$159,388,080	$8,873,370	$17,201,720	$29,097,912

Assessed values, at 70% of market value. The grand list year runs ahead of the fiscal year that taxes it, so a grand list year and a fiscal year on this page are not the same period. Source: CT OPM, Net Grand List by Town (webp-fgt3).

Income and housing by survey release

Income and housing by survey release for Hampton, Connecticut
ACS release	Median household income	Per-capita income	Median home value	Median gross rent	Population
2021	$92,143	$48,267	$259,800	$1,139 ±51	1,685
2022	$107,109	$52,998	$286,000	$1,306 ±270	1,639
2023	$112,344	$57,837	$291,100	$1,276 ±352	1,628
2024	$109,167	$57,847	$295,800	$1,285 ±288	1,647

Each release is a rolling five-year average, not a single year, so consecutive releases overlap and should not be read as year-over-year change. Median home value is what owners report to the survey, not an assessment. Gross rent is contract rent plus the estimated cost of utilities and fuels where the renter pays them, so it is not the figure on a lease; it covers renter-occupied units, while median home value covers owner-occupied ones. The number after ± is the 90% margin of error the Census publishes with that estimate. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Median gross rent is ACS 5-year, B25064.

Taxes & Income

Equalized mill rate over time

Posted (nominal) mill rate over time

Nominal vs. equalized mill rate — peer towns

Posted (nominal) mill rate — peer towns, most recent year

Equalized mill rate — every Connecticut town ranked

Grand list by assessment class

Tax-exempt property as a share of all assessed property

Grand list growth against inflation

Grand list growth — taxable value against market value

Property tax levy per resident and household income

Levy per resident as a share of median household income

Tax levy by property type

Household income and home value

Households, and households with children

Businesses and jobs located in town

The data behind these charts

Posted mill rate by fiscal year

Tax levy by property type, total tax levy and equalized mill rate by fiscal year

Net grand list by assessment class and grand list year

Income and housing by survey release