Your Guide to Buying a Home in Stamford, CT

Buying a Home in Stamford, Connecticut

Stamford is located in Fairfield County

Welcome to Stamford, a coastal community along Connecticut's shoreline. Stamford is a city of approximately 111,000 citizens, consisting of 37.3 square miles. Stamford is 25 miles to the northeast of New York City, and 40 miles south of New Haven.

Connecticut's Capitol is Hartford, which is 90 miles to the north. Stamford lies within Fairfield County, and borders Greenwich, New Canaan, Darien, and Pound Ridge, New York. Stamford's proximity to New York allows those who live and work here ample opportunity to avail themselves of its cultural, retail, employment and other resources. Metro North Railroad provides express train service to New York's Grand Central Station in approximately 40 minutes.

The Stamford Transportation Center (our rail road station) is located in Stamford's downtown business district, near I-95, which is Connecticut's interstate highway. Another major highway is Route 15, the Merritt Parkway, which crosses Stamford and merges into New York's Hutchinson River Parkway.

Stamford is one of the first cities in the country, and the first in the State of Connecticut, to implement a School Readiness Program, which offers all four-year olds in our community the opportunity to receive a pre-kindergarten education. Our program has been cited as a model for the rest of the nation by U.S. Secretary of Education, Richard Riley. Schools: The City has two public high schools, four middle schools and twelve elementary schools. In addition there are twelve private and parochial schools, as well as a state technical high school. The Board employs 1,748 professional (certified) personnel and 576 non-certified personnel including secretaries, clerks, cafeteria workers, custodians, maintenance personnel and teachers' aides.