Coventry Lake vs Crystal Lake

A side-by-side comparison of Coventry Lake and Crystal Lake: population, income, housing, and more.

Coventry Lake and Crystal Lake are places in Connecticut. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Coventry Lake has the higher population (2,358 vs 1,963 in Crystal Lake). Crystal Lake has the higher median household income ($142,642 vs $73,846 in Coventry Lake). Crystal Lake has the higher median home value ($345,300 vs $263,200 in Coventry Lake).

Population, income & housing

	Coventry Lake	Crystal Lake
Population	2,358	1,963
Median age	55.2 yrs	51.1 yrs
Median household income	$73,846	$142,642
Median home value	$263,200	$345,300
Median gross rent	$1,031	—
Housing units	1,359	845
Homeownership rate	88.0%	91.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher	42.2%	40.9%
Unemployment rate	1.2%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Coventry Lake	Crystal Lake
Population	2,530 → 2,358 (-6.8%)	2,188 → 1,963 (-10.3%)
Median household income	$89,554 → $73,846 (-17.5%)	$147,105 → $142,642 (-3.0%)
Median home value	$192,200 → $263,200 (+36.9%)	$342,800 → $345,300 (+0.7%)
Median gross rent	$1,638 → $1,031 (-37.1%)	—

Coventry Lake

Population

2,5302,358

Median household income

$89,554$73,846

Median home value

$192,200$263,200

Median gross rent

$1,638$1,031

Crystal Lake

Population

2,1881,963

Median household income

$147,105$142,642

Median home value

$342,800$345,300

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Coventry Lake	Crystal Lake
Under 5	3.5%	1.8%
5 to 17	11.4%	17.4%
18 to 24	4.2%	5.7%
25 to 34	13.7%	3.8%
35 to 44	10.7%	14.2%
45 to 54	6.0%	14.0%
55 to 64	28.0%	21.0%
65 to 74	16.4%	15.5%
75 and over	6.1%	6.7%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Coventry Lake	Crystal Lake
White (non-Hispanic)	94.1%	85.1%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	8.3%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	2.0%	2.2%
Hispanic or Latino	3.8%	4.3%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Coventry Lake	Crystal Lake
No high school diploma	2.7%	2.7%
High school graduate	32.0%	31.9%
Some college or associate's	23.1%	24.5%
Bachelor's degree	21.7%	22.4%
Graduate or professional degree	20.5%	18.5%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Coventry Lake	Crystal Lake
Drove alone	87.1%	75.0%
Carpooled	4.4%	1.3%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	8.5%	23.6%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Coventry Lake	Crystal Lake
1-unit, detached	98.7%	90.9%
1-unit, attached	1.3%	7.2%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	1.9%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Coventry Lake	Crystal Lake
Poverty rate	13.3%	1.5%
Average household size	2.01	2.49
Mean commute (minutes)	28	33
Median year structure built	1954	1974