City safety & data profile
WaterfordCT
Waterford, CT is a 19K-resident city in Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region with a median household income of $73,156.
Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Waterford, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Waterford has a population larger than 42% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, and a median home value of $282,900.
Data updated 2026-09-04
- 19K
- Population (place)
- Bottom 43%
- By size
- $73,156
- Median income (place)
- $282,900
- Median home (place)
- 7%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Waterford
Waterford posts a median household income higher than 41% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks.
- Bottom 42%
- by median income, US cities
Where Waterford income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$73,156 Bottom 41% higher than 41% 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 Waterford, CT beyond the headline numbers
Waterford sits inside Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut, at roughly 41.34°N, -72.14°W. Population 19,281, $73,156 median household income. Median home value $282,900, median rent $1,668. Poverty rate 7%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
At 7%, poverty in Waterford, CT runs below the midpoint of reporting cities -- enough to matter locally, not enough to dominate the city's profile.
The median home in Waterford costs roughly 3.9 times median household income, below the midpoint for reporting cities, so ownership remains reachable on a typical local wage.
Only 6.7% of Waterford 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, current asthma departs furthest from its peer median: 11.7% in Waterford, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,722 cities reporting that measure.
At 44.8 years, Waterford's median age is in the oldest quarter of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Waterford 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 (Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region): Waterford'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 | 7% -44% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 6% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 27.3% |
| Work From Home | 6.7% |
| Public Transit | 1% |
Population
Health Profile 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
What alerts and safety updates affect Waterford?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Waterford right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet CT-WATERFORD-CT · Waterford
Waterford: 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 Waterford; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Connecticut state hubs · Methodology
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Frequently Asked Questions 5
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Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Waterford, both outside Connecticut so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside CT (7% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside CT ($73,156 here).
Compare Waterford 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 Waterford'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 Waterford 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 Waterford 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 (Southeastern Connecticut 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.