Connecticut cities and towns

This directory lists every place the US Census Bureau tabulates in Connecticut, ranked from the largest to the smallest by population. Incorporated cities, towns and villages appear alongside census-designated places (CDPs) — unincorporated communities that have no local government of their own but are counted separately because they have a recognised name and settled population. The suffix in each name ("city", "town", "village", "CDP") is the Census legal/statistical description, which is why you will see entries such as "Bridgeport city".

The largest place in Connecticut is Bridgeport city with 148,012 residents, and the 215 places on this page hold 2,234,130 people between them. Median household income across the listed places runs from $30,357 to $250,001, and median home values range from $169,200 to $2,000,001 — a spread that shows how much local housing markets diverge inside a single state.

Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates, which average survey responses over sixty months. That averaging is what makes small towns measurable at all, but it also means the numbers describe the period as a whole rather than today. Blank cells are estimates the Census suppressed because the local sample was too small to publish reliably. Select any place to open its full profile with affordability ratios, poverty and homeownership rates, and links to nearby communities of similar size.

Connecticut is a city-weighted state without being a one-city state: 14 places above 50,000 residents hold 56% of the 2,234,130 people counted here, spread across several metros rather than one. Comparisons work best inside that tier — the 53 sub-thousand places on this list live in a different economy. The median row holds just 2,516 residents. At that scale margins of error widen sharply, and a single large household or seasonal population can shift a median.

Buying is a little easier here than nationally: Connecticut's median place shows $370,200 in home value on $105,000 of income, a ratio of 3.5 against 3.9 across the country. Rent stays modest against earnings — $1,438 a month, roughly 16% of median household income over a year.

Incomes fan out sharply inside Connecticut. Strip the outliers and the top-decile place still earns 3.95× the bottom-decile one ($239,375 against $60,526); include them and Riverside CDP tops the list at $250,001 and Cornwall Bridge CDP anchors the bottom at $30,357. A single "Connecticut average" is averaging across two different economies.

Coverage is close to complete: only 12 of 215 rows show a blank where the Census suppressed an estimate for sample-size reasons. The rest are published five-year values, averaged over sixty months of responses.

How many places does Connecticut have? 215 appear in the current federal tabulation, counting incorporated cities, towns and villages together with census-designated places — unincorporated communities with no local government of their own. The legal suffix in each name is the Census description, which is how two communities can share a name.

Which Connecticut row should I compare mine against? Pick places within roughly the same population band. In a state this spread out, size drives the housing and income figures more than region does.

How current is this? Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year release published by the US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates. It reflects the full survey window rather than a single date, and it is the most recent vintage available for places this small.