Connecticut Home Inspection Service Area

Shoreline flood zones, backcountry ledge and wells, and the widest range of housing in the state.

• BridgeportConnecticut's largest city. A deep stock of 1900s two- and three-family houses.
• DanburyThe Hat City. Factory-era housing, a big lake, hard water, and a river through downtown.
• FairfieldBeach flood zones, an 18th-century hilltop village, and two rivers that flood.
• GreenwichStone estates and slate roofs above, waterfront flood zones below, ledge throughout.
• NorwalkVictorian rowhouses, converted mills, a working harbor, and a river with a flood record.
• SheltonFarmland turned subdivision, mills turned lofts, and wells and septic in the White Hills.
• StamfordA city of two halves. Coastal flood zones below, wells and ledge above the parkway.
• WestportTidal river flooding, Compo Beach, and a serious mid-century modern housing legacy.

Traprock ridges, mill-city multi-families, a working shoreline, and a river valley with a flood history.

• DerbyConnecticut's smallest city, Victorian housing, two rivers, and a levee system worth understanding.
• GuilfordA 1639 town with one of the largest concentrations of pre-1800 houses in New England.
• HamdenTwo traprock ridges, 1920s streetcar neighborhoods, and a long, narrow town.
• MilfordSeventeen miles of shoreline, elevated homes, converted cottages, and salt air.
• New HavenThree-family houses, Victorian neighborhoods, and traprock ridges, all inside one city.
• OxfordFast-growing, almost entirely on wells and septic, with brooks that have a documented flood record.
• WallingfordA silver town on the Quinnipiac, with its own electric utility and a very intact center.
• WaterburyThe Brass City. Hillside Victorians, retaining walls, and a great deal of multi-family housing.

Glacial lake clay, wet basements, brownstone, and the Metacomet ridge.

• BristolClockmaking money built Federal Hill; the Pequabuck River still shapes the low ground.
• FarmingtonAn 18th-century Main Street, a river through Unionville, and ledge along the ridge.
• GlastonburyAntique river-lowland houses and eastern-hills colonials on bedrock wells. Two towns in one.
• ManchesterCheney mill housing, the Hockanum River, and the western edge of the pyrrhotite region.
• SimsburyRiver meadows that flood, a ridge that sheds water, and tobacco land turned into subdivisions.
• SouthingtonOrchards, the Metacomet ridge, and decades of subdivisions built between them.
• West Hartford1920s Tudors and Colonials on clay soils that do not drain.

Granite, sandy outwash, sea-captain houses, and a coast with a hurricane history.

• GrotonSubmarine-era workforce housing, sandy ground, high water tables, and a long coastline.
• NorwichThree rivers, 18th-century Norwichtown, mill-owner mansions, and very steep streets.
• StoningtonSea-captain Federals in the Borough, Mystic next door, granite underneath all of it.

The oldest housing in the state, on wells, on hills, heated every way there is.

• New MilfordThe largest town in the state by area. River, lake, marble valley, and a very long green.
• TorringtonBrass-mill Victorians on steep streets, at the head of the Naugatuck.

The lower Connecticut River, brownstone, tidal marsh, and a protected shoreline.

• MiddletownBrownstone, a very wide Main Street, and a river town that became a college town.
• Old SaybrookThe mouth of the Connecticut River. Beach colonies, flood zones, and hard-working septic systems.

Eastern Highlands bedrock, bedrock wells, and the centre of the crumbling-foundation region.

• VernonRockville’s Victorians, Eastern Highlands radon, and the most careful foundation look in the state.

The Quiet Corner. Mill villages, Victorian worker housing, and the most house per dollar in the state.

• WindhamThread City. Mill-era Victorians, a river through the middle, and the best value in the state.