Westport is a commuters haven located just 47 miles from Manhattan with excellent schools, expansive sports facilities, fine stores and restaurants, first rate art and cultural events and, wonderful homes tucked into quiet cul-de-sacs or boldly facing the Long Island Sound.

Compo Beach on the beautiful Long Island Sound is adjacent to the town-owned Longshore Inn and Country Club with tennis, swimming, sailing and an 18-hole golf course. Westport prides itself on its artistic and cultural heritage with such well-known past and present residents as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bette Davis, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. This heritage continues today in The Westport Country Playhouse, The Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts and The Westport Art Center.

Westport has one of the state's finest school systems with special programs for both gifted and special needs students.  The excellent curriculum, sports facilities and lively art and drama departments make this a premiere school system.  The Westport Public Library contains about 200,000 volumes of books, records and videos with an active educational program for children and adults.