Looking to buy a home in Westport, Connecticut?

Westport Zip Code:  06880

Westport, urban town (township), Fairfield county, southwestern Connecticut, U.S. within Connecticut’s Gold Coast. The town is ranked 19th among America’s 100 Richest Places as well as third in Connecticut.

It lies along Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Saugatuck River just east of Norwalk.

• The area, which the local Indians called Saugatuck, was settled about 1648; it was renamed and detached from Fairfield, Norwalk, and Weston and incorporated as a separate town in 1835.
• A population of 26,391
• It is 52 miles northeast of New York City.
• The British invasion of Danbury took place in Westport’s very own Compo Beach.
• Celebrity sightings are common such as Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio eating at the local hotspot – Bartaco.

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