About New Canaan CT
New Canaan is 22 square miles in area and is bordered by Darien, Stamford, Norwalk, Wilton and Pound Ridge, N.Y. It is a residential community with a charming downtown shopping village of specialty shops, restaurants, and office buildings. Metro North provides rail service from New Canaan through Stamford to Manhattan.
Homes offer a wide variety of architectural choices including large country homes surrounded by the stonewalls of traditional New England to deluxe condominiums, contemporaries and early colonials.
New Canaan provides a fine education to its children in both public and private schools. Outdoor activity is bountiful at four recreation centers, public parks, a nature center, ball fields, tennis courts and skating ponds.
New Canaan Schools and Strategic School Profile
| POPULATION | 19,690 |
| # OF HOMES | 6,728 |
| AREA IN SQ. MILES | 22 |
| MILES FROM NYC | 46 |
| MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME | $178,651 |
| NUMBER OF SCHOOLS | |
| ELEMENTARY | 3 |
| MIDDLE SCHOOL | 1 |
| HIGH SCHOOL | 1 |
*Information is approximate and will be updated as more information becomes available to us.
