Wallingford Center is a census-designated place (CDP) comprising the primary community in the town of Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. It is in the central and southern parts of the town, bordered to the west by the Wilbur Cross Parkway, to the east by Interstate 91, and to the south by the town of North Haven. To the north the CDP extends (from east to west) to New Rock Hill Road, Durham Road, Christian Street, North Elm Street, Maplewood Avenue, and up North Main Street as far as Yale Avenue, where it crosses the Wilbur Cross Parkway. U.S. Route 5 (Colony Street) is the main north–south road through the community. To the north is the neighborhood of Yalesville.
As of the 2010 census, the Wallingford Center CDP had a population of 18,209, out of 45,135 in the entire town of Wallingford.


The CDP is the location of the town hall and police station, as well as Wallingford Center School. It also contains a branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, which has a large collection on local history. The library was originally built in 1876 by architect Henry Austin for use by Yale University students; it was given to the town in 1901 when Yale moved its campus from downtown New Haven to West Haven.

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