For the more than 18,000 residents of Wilton, CT, living here offers the best of many worlds: a predominately suburban lifestyle with a country flair and cosmopolitan aura. Just 55 miles from New York City and easily accessed by train or car, Wilton is a small New England town with a bustling town center and a countryside that includes forests, open space, stone walls, rolling hills, streams and ponds. Residents are drawn to the variety of housing choices, top-ranked schools, private and public recreational facilities and convenience to work and shopping.

While many residents work in urban centers such as Stamford, Norwalk or New York City, Wilton also is home to such major corporations as Deloitte & Touche LLP, Louis Dreyfus Corporation and ASML Lithography. Residents include those who can trace their roots back to Wilton’s colonial times as well as those whose jobs and travel have taken them around the globe. There is a wide variety of housing accommodations ranging from townhouses and condominiums to sprawling estates and everything in-between.

The town’s business center, set apart from the Route 7 corridor, offers plenty of shopping and other conveniences needed for daily life while more extensive needs can be met just a short drive away in the neighboring towns of Norwalk, Westport and Ridgefield or nearby Stamford.

Weir Farm, Connecticut’s only national historic site, is located on the Wilton-Ridgefield border. It was the summer home of the American Impressionist painter J. Alden Weir.