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What a Dumpster Actually Costs in Fairfield County
Real price, size, weight, and demand data from 18,385 jobs we've completed since 2019. No survey, no estimates — our own records, published.
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since 2014 (12 years)
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in Connecticut & New York
Last updated August 16, 2026 · Data through August 15, 2026 · Refreshed annually
What people actually pay, by size
Posted base rates tell you where the bill starts. These medians tell you where it typically ends — the full amount paid, including any weight overage and extension days, across 6,398 consumer rentals since October 2022:
| Size | Our base rate today | Median all-in paid | Rentals measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-yard | $447 | $490 | 2,143 |
| 15-yard | $547 | $570 | 1,337 |
| 20-yard | $647 | $634 | 2,560 |
| 30/40-yard | $899 | $1,180 | 358 |
The gap between base rate and median is weight and extra days — both billed at the posted rates ($0.10/lb past the included allowance, $15/day past the 7-day window), not hidden fees. Every dumpster company bills weight; most just don't show you the math before you book. The full pricing reference has every rate and every add-on in one place.
One note on the 30/40-yard tier: it ships as two 20-yard cans — same total capacity, smaller per-can footprint — which is why its numbers run roughly double the 20-yard's.
How prices have moved
Comparing 2023 (the first full year of our current product lineup) against 2026 year-to-date, median all-in prices moved modestly:
| Size | 2023 median | 2026 YTD median | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20-yard | $611 | $647 | +6% |
| 10-yard | $475 | $508 | +7% |
| 15-yard | $554 | $564 | +2% |
| 30/40-yard | $1,130 | $1,129 | flat |
Base prices moved more than all-in totals. Among rentals that closed at the base rate — no overage, no extension, the cleanest read on list-price movement — the 20-yard median went from $549 in 2023 (318 rentals) to $617 in 2026 year-to-date (97 rentals), about +12%. The 10-yard tells the same story on smaller samples: $349 (79 rentals) to $417 (32 rentals). Disposal costs at Connecticut transfer stations drove most of that, and all-in totals rose slower than base rates — customers have gotten better at sizing and loading, and so have we at recommending the right can.
Earlier years aren't in these comparisons on purpose: before October 2022 we sold a different product structure (14-day rentals, different sizes, 1-ton limits), and blending it into one trend line would be comparing different products. We'd rather show you a shorter, honest series than a longer, fuzzy one.
Which sizes Fairfield County rents
| Size | Share of rentals |
|---|---|
| 20-yard | 40% |
| 10-yard | 33.5% |
| 15-yard | 20.9% |
| 30/40-yard | 5.6% |
The 20-yard is the county's workhorse — big enough for a whole-home cleanout or a single-layer roof tear-off, small enough for most driveways. If you're between sizes, the size pages linked above walk through project-by-project fit, weight caps included.
When the county rents
Share of the year's rentals landing in each month, from seven complete years (2019–2025):
| Month | Share | Month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6% | July | 9.7% |
| February | 5.5% | August | 9.6% |
| March | 7.9% | September | 9.4% |
| April | 9.3% | October | 8.7% |
| May | 9.8% | November | 7.9% |
| June | 10% | December | 6.4% |
June peaks at 10%, February bottoms out at 5.5% — demand nearly doubles from winter trough to summer peak. Renovation season is real. Our rates don't move with it, but scheduling flexibility does: book a February project and you'll get your pick of delivery windows.
Where the dumpsters go
Of the 6,398 consumer rentals we delivered since October 2022 — our jobs, not a county market survey:
| Rank | Town | Share | Rentals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stamford | 22.7% | 1,451 |
| 2 | Norwalk | 12.4% | 793 |
| 3 | Greenwich | 11.5% | 735 |
| 4 | Westport | 3.7% | 239 |
| 5 | Darien | 3.6% | 231 |
| 6 | New Canaan | 3.6% | 229 |
| 7 | Wilton | 2.3% | 146 |
| 8 | Ridgefield | 1.9% | 120 |
| 9 | Pound Ridge, NY | 1.9% | 120 |
| 10 | Weston | 1.7% | 109 |
| 11 | Fairfield | 1.4% | 91 |
| 12 | Shelton | 1.3% | 86 |
| 13 | Riverside (Greenwich) | 1.3% | 85 |
| 14 | Bridgeport | 1.2% | 78 |
| 15 | Cos Cob (Greenwich) | 1.2% | 77 |
| — | Everywhere else (179 towns) | 28.3% | 1,808 |
Three things worth noticing. First, Stamford, Norwalk, and Greenwich together take nearly half our deliveries — and Greenwich understates itself in this table, because Riverside and Cos Cob are Greenwich villages billed under their own names; combined, greater Greenwich runs about 15%. Second, Pound Ridge — yes, New York — cracks the top ten. A town of under 6,000 out-rents Fairfield County towns several times its size, which says something about how much renovation happens up there and something about how few haulers want to drive those roads. We do; dumpster delivery across the border is a normal part of our week. Third, the long tail is long: 179 towns and villages account for over a quarter of deliveries. We publish a town's numbers only when it has at least 25 jobs behind them; every town in this table clears that bar several times over.
Weight: the number nobody talks about
Here's the stat that surprises everyone: about two in three of our rentals (68.6%) end up over the included weight allowance. That's not a Grizzly quirk — it's how dumpster weight economics work industry-wide. Debris is heavier than it looks, every hauler pays the transfer station by the pound, and every hauler passes weight through one way or another. The difference is whether they tell you the rate up front. Ours is posted: $0.10 per pound past the allowance, the real transfer-station rate, not marked up.
So plan for weight like it's part of the price — because for most projects, it is. When a load does go over, here's what it typically weighs:
| Size | Included allowance | Median weight of over-allowance loads | Loads measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-yard | 1,000 lbs | 2,500 lbs | 1,861 |
| 15-yard | 2,000 lbs | 3,640 lbs | 940 |
| 20-yard | 4,000 lbs | 5,840 lbs | 1,302 |
| 30/40-yard | 6,000 lbs | 10,600 lbs | 228 |
Read that middle column carefully: it describes loads that went over, not the average rental — under-allowance loads never cross a scale, so nobody (including us) can tell you what the "average" load weighs. What we can tell you is what routinely pushes loads over:
- Roofing shingles — about 300 lbs per square (100 sq ft of roof). A single-layer tear-off on a 2,000 sq ft roof is roughly 5,200 lbs before the first piece of plywood. If a 20-yard is being recommended for a tear-off, weight math should come with it — ours does, on the 20-yard page.
- Tile, plaster, and drywall — demo debris from one bathroom can outweigh the furniture from three bedrooms.
- Books, paper, and "just some boxes from the basement" — the classic 10-yard overage. Paper is dense.
- Anything that's been rained on. An open can in a wet week gains real weight. Tarp it.
Two honest ways to spend less on weight: size up when the debris is dense (the next size up costs $100 more and doubles the allowance — cheaper than paying overage on a maxed-out smaller can), and keep the banned heavy fills out entirely (concrete, brick, dirt, and asphalt aren't accepted in our cans at any weight — they need a clean-fill hauler).
One more planning number: 15.8% of rentals — about one in six — keep the can past the included 7 days. Projects run long; that's normal. Extension days are $15/day, posted, and dispatch would always rather hear from you before the window closes than after.
Dumpster vs. junk removal vs. Grizzly Bag
Since 2024, the median all-in cost across our three residential options:
| Option | Median cost | Jobs measured |
|---|---|---|
| Junk removal (Fairfield County, crew loads) | $295 | 454 |
| Grizzly Bag (8-yd flexible bag, you load) | $299 | 327 |
| 10-yard dumpster (you load, all-in) | $499 | 1,431 |
The pattern: when a crew loading a partial truck covers the job, junk removal is usually the cheaper call — and you never lift anything. When the project runs multiple days and fills 10+ cubic yards, the dumpster's capacity wins. The bag sits in between: dumpster economics at half the commitment, no rental clock. The pricing reference has the full decision table.
Methodology
Everything on this page comes from our own completed-jobs records — 37,277 raw job records from 2019 through August 15, 2026, deduplicated by job number. Dumpster rentals generate separate drop-off and pickup records in our system, so we collapsed each rental to its revenue-bearing record (14,502 zero-dollar companion records excluded) — each rental counts exactly once. Wholesale work billed to other haulers and service lines we no longer offer are excluded from every price statistic. That leaves 18,385 consumer jobs behind the demand and seasonality figures, and 6,398 consumer dumpster rentals — October 2022 onward, our current product structure — behind every price figure.
Published figures are medians, shares, and percentages, computed directly from the records: no estimates, no extrapolation, no outside data blended in. Town figures appear only where a town aggregates at least 25 jobs. Nothing on this page identifies a customer, an address, or a single job. Demand shares describe our deliveries, not the county market. We refresh this report annually; the date at the top is real.
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