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Windsor · Hartford County · Connecticut
First in Connecticut. Still leading the valley.
Settled in 1633 as Connecticut’s first English settlement, Windsor pairs river-plain tobacco fields and Northwest Park’s hundreds of acres with a train station into Hartford.
Why Windsor
What living here actually feels like.
Windsor’s fields grew shade tobacco that wrapped the finest cigars in America; today the same broad Connecticut River floodplain reads as scenic openness nobody can build over. Palisado Green keeps a colonial common alive under century-old trees.
Northwest Park packs a nature center, working barns, trails and a beaver marsh into town-owned land. The Hartford Line’s Windsor station puts downtown Hartford on a twelve-minute train ride, while the town’s own center covers groceries, libraries and restaurants without crossing a highway.
- First English settlement in Connecticut, 1633
- Northwest Park — nature center, barns, trails, marsh
- Hartford Line rail service into downtown Hartford
- Palisado Green historic district
Getting there
Ask Sallie about Windsor
Bradley International — about 10 min
Hartford — about 15 min
Springfield, MA — about 20 min
(approximate drive times)
Windsor by the numbers
The facts behind the feeling.
Median household income$107,548$93,760 statewide
Median home value$283,800$343,200 statewide
Population29,36711,360 households
People per square mile995743 statewide
Sources: CERC Connecticut Town Profile, 2025 edition · advanceCT and CTData Collaborative · ACS 2019–2023.
Three places locals will mention first
Learn it like a local.
Recreation & Leisure Services
Leagues and lifelong-learning catalogs.
Windsor Caring Connection
Adult day health services in town.
Go deeper — straight from the source
From the town’s own website.
Making a home in Windsor
Median home value: $283,800. What yours is worth: a conversation.
Sallie King represents buyers and sellers across this whole region from her Suffield office. Current inventory lives on her MLS-connected site; strategy lives with her.