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Easton is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 7,605 at the time of the 2020 census. Easton contains the historic district of Aspetuck and the Plattsville census-designated place. Part of the Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, which is in turn a part of the New York metropolitan statistical area, it is bordered by the towns of Fairfield, Connecticut to the south, Redding to the north, Weston to the west, and Monroe and Trumbull to the east. In March 2023, Easton established a sister city relationship with Sviatohirsk, Donetsk, Ukraine.

Easton was first settled in 1757 by men and women from Fairfield. In 1762 a congregation called the North Fairfield Society was established, and it gradually evolved into Easton. In 1787 Weston, then including lands now defined as Easton, was incorporated out of Fairfield. The area was slow to develop because of the rough hills along the Aspetuck River, and so it was not until 1845 that what is now Easton separated from Weston. Today, half of the town’s property is owned by the Aquarion Water Company of Connecticut, the major supplier of water in the area.

The deaf and blind activist Helen Keller lived the last several years of her life in Easton. Her house is still intact today and has been owned by several families since her death. The local middle school is named for her.

The 2009 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree was a 76-foot Norway Spruce donated from a private residence in Easton.

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Geography

Total area of 28.6 square miles, of which 27.4 square miles is land and 1.2 square miles (4.2%) is water.

Census (as of 2010): 7,490 people, 2,465 households, 2,077 families.

Racial makeup: 96.74% White, 0.22% African American, 0.04% Native American, 2.02% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.41% from other races, and 0.55% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.76% of the population.

Of 2,465 total households:

42.3% have children under the age of 18 living at home.

75.8% married couples living together.

6.3% have a female householder with no husband present.

15.7% were non-families.

12.4% of all households are made up of individuals, and 6.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Average household size was 2.95 and the average family size was 3.23 individuals.

Demographics

Population: 21.7% under the age of 18, 5.5% from 18 to 24, 24.7% from 25 to 44, 37% from 45 to 64, and 16.6% who were 65 years of age or older.

Median age is 47 years.

Median income per household is $132,000. Median income for a family was $155,227.

Males had a median income of $101,636 versus $83,333 for females. The per capita income for the town was $59,546.

About 2.2% of families and 3.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.4% of those under age 18 and 2.6% of those age 65 or over.

Education

Easton has 3 schools:

Samuel Staples Elementary school, for children in grades from kindergarten to 5th grade.

Helen Keller Middle School, for children in grades 6 through 8.

Easton Country Day (private school) for children K–12 (formerly Phoenix Academy).

High school students attend Joel Barlow High School in Redding.

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