City safety & data profile
BridgeportCT
Bridgeport, CT is a 148K-resident city in Greater Bridgeport Planning Region with a median household income of $58,685.
Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Bridgeport, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Bridgeport has a population larger than 96% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $274,900, and 3 hospitals serving the surrounding area.
Data updated 2026-09-04
- 148K
- Population (place)
- Top 4%
- By size
- $58,685
- Median income (place)
- $274,900
- Median home (place)
- 21%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Bridgeport
Bridgeport posts a median household income higher than 20% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 3 hospitals serve the Bridgeport area.
- Bottom 21%
- by median income, US cities
- 3
- hospitals in & near Bridgeport
Where Bridgeport income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$58,685 Bottom 20% higher than 20% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year
Largest cities in CT
Population among 35 CT places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.
- Bridgeport
Bridgeport, CT
147,629 residents
- New Haven
New Haven, CT
130,322 residents
- Stamford
Stamford, CT
128,874 residents
- Hartford
Hartford, CT
121,054 residents
- Waterbury
Waterbury, CT
108,802 residents
- Norwalk
Norwalk, CT
88,485 residents
- Danbury
Danbury, CT
84,657 residents
- New Britain
New Britain, CT
72,808 residents
- West Hartford
West Hartford, CT
63,268 residents
- Bristol
Bristol, CT
60,452 residents
What this shows Bridgeport is the largest CT city on this list; New Canaan leads median income.
Highest median incomes in CT
Median household income among the same 35-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.
- New Canaan
New Canaan, CT
$146,700 median
- Orange
Orange, CT
$142,325 median
- Greenwich
Greenwich, CT
$134,914 median
- North Haven
North Haven, CT
$132,689 median
- West Hartford
West Hartford, CT
$129,890 median
- Wethersfield
Wethersfield, CT
$126,806 median
- Stamford
Stamford, CT
$111,586 median
- Milford
Milford, CT
$111,201 median
- Shelton
Shelton, CT
$108,185 median
- Norwalk
Norwalk, CT
$107,616 median
What this shows New Canaan posts the highest place-level median income in CT; Bridgeport is largest by headcount.
The quick read
Reading Bridgeport, CT beyond the headline numbers
Bridgeport sits inside Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut, at roughly 41.18°N, -73.19°W. Population 147,629, $58,685 median household income. Median home value $274,900, median rent $1,450. Poverty rate 21%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
3 hospitals in/around Bridgeport, 4/5 avg rating, 2 with an ER.
21% of Bridgeport, CT residents live below the poverty line, placing it in the hardest-hit quarter of reporting cities. Read every median on this page against that: half the households are above it, and a large minority are far below.
A median home in Bridgeport runs about 4.7 times median household income, above the midpoint. Multiples in this range usually mean buyers are arriving from outside the local wage base.
Only 7.6% of Bridgeport workers report working from home, the lowest quarter of reporting cities -- an economy still built around showing up somewhere.
Among the CDC measures on this page, lack of health insurance departs furthest from its peer median: 21.4% in Bridgeport, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
6.8% of Bridgeport workers commute by public transit, a larger share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Bridgeport from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.
10-Year Trends 2022–2024
County-level trend (Greater Bridgeport Planning Region): Bridgeport's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.
Economics
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 21% +69% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 8.9% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 23.4% |
| Work From Home | 7.6% |
| Public Transit | 6.8% |
Population
Health Profile 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Hospitals 3 total
What alerts and safety updates affect Bridgeport?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Bridgeport right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet CT-BRIDGEPORT-CT · Bridgeport
Bridgeport: no area-tagged alerts on record — state hubs carry the live CAP stream.
- FEED-QUIET No tagged alerts
- LEAD-NONE Feed idle
- DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Bridgeport; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Connecticut state hubs · Methodology
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Frequently Asked Questions 6
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Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Bridgeport, both outside Connecticut so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside CT (21% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside CT ($58,685 here).
Compare Bridgeport with another city
Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.
Nearby Cities 8
Using Bridgeport's profile
Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.
- Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Bridgeport area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
- Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
- Compare Bridgeport against Connecticut peers on any ranking lens. Explore Connecticut
Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.
Data Sources
All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Greater Bridgeport Planning Region) where that is the smallest published unit.
Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026.