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Place dossier plate
SheetCT-BRIDGEPORT-CT · Bridgeport, CT 148,012 pop · income 30th pct · 79 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Bridgeport
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Bridgeport on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Hartford · lowest
45,300
Hartford · lowest
45,300 median HH income
42.1% of the leader · rank #1
Greenwood · near
56,579
Greenwood · near
56,579 median HH income
52.6% of the leader · rank #2
Tennessee Rid… · near
56,583
Tennessee Rid… · near
56,583 median HH income
52.6% of the leader · rank #3
Hamlin · near
56,583
Hamlin · near
56,583 median HH income
52.6% of the leader · rank #4
Bridgeport · this city
56,584
Bridgeport · this city
56,584 median HH income
52.6% of the leader · rank #5
Tornillo · near
56,587
Tornillo · near
56,587 median HH income
52.7% of the leader · rank #6
Stamford · highest
107,474
Stamford · highest
107,474 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Bridgeport on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 148,012.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Bridgeport - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Bridgeport places in the 30th percentile for household income and the 36th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
30th
percentile, household income
56th
percentile, home value
86th
percentile, median rent
36th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Bridgeport, CT
Connecticut's Bridgeport is a mid-sized U.S. city, with 148,012 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $56,584 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 18.3%. Home values in Bridgeport run a median of $252,400, and the median resident age is 36.4 years. About 23.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 60.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 485 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 978% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 1861.9 crimes per 100,000 residents, near the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
Connecticut carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Connecticut at 103.6 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Above Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,955 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Connecticut run around $345, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Bridgeport workers runs 28.0 minutes, with 63.4% driving alone and 6.4% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 87.6 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Bridgeport's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from housing and income to schools and households to reported crime to population change to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Bridgeport, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Bridgeport?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 18.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
What does the education layer cover for Bridgeport?
The NCES join finds 44 public schools within the city match. 23.1% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
Which cities make useful reference points for Bridgeport?
Within Connecticut, the closest population matches are Stamford (135,806 residents, $107,474 income); New Haven (132,893 residents, $53,771 income); Hartford (119,970 residents, $45,300 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Rockford, IL (147,649 residents); Pomona, CA (148,391 residents); Savannah, GA (147,546 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
What can 79 Census tracts reveal inside Bridgeport?
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
PlainCities matches 79 Census tracts to this city.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Bridgeport?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1861.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 18% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1469.0
Violent rate
392.9
Total reported rate
1861.9
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Bridgeport growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +4,601 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 485 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+3.1%
2025 estimate
152,273
2020 estimate
147,672
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Bridgeport?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 63.4%. The reported mean trip to work is 28.0 minutes.
Public transit
7.1%
Work from home
6.4%
Drive alone
63.4%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 70,757 workers age 16+.
Below median income · poverty 18.3% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.6 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, Connecticut average
F
City profile score · Bridgeport, CT
27/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share D
23.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$56,584
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Cost of living F
103.6 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime F
393 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
18.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bridgeport profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 43/100 (D) · 23.1%
Household income: 30/100 (F) · $56,584
Cost of living: 24/100 (F) · 103.6 index
Violent crime: 23/100 (F) · 393 /100k
Poverty rate: 16/100 (F) · 18.3%
Where Bridgeport sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Bridgeport's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Bridgeport highlighted among 13 peers.Read the chart values
Bridgeport, CT (this city): home $252,400, crime 1,862/100k
Rockford, IL : home $120,900, crime 3,597/100k
Pomona, CA : home $569,600, crime 3,469/100k
Savannah, GA : home $225,200, crime 20/100k
Mesquite, TX : home $226,500, crime 3,478/100k
Denton, TX : home $325,700, crime 1,949/100k
Pasadena, TX : home $193,600, crime 2,918/100k
Stamford, CT : home $614,300, crime 1,383/100k
New Haven, CT : home $249,000, crime 4,122/100k
Hartford, CT : home $217,200, crime 3,361/100k
Waterbury, CT : home $185,400, crime 3,241/100k
Norwalk, CT : home $535,000, crime 1,590/100k
Danbury, CT : home $381,600, crime 1,519/100k
How does Bridgeport compare to other US cities?
Where Bridgeport sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income30% higher than other cities
Home value56% pricier than other cities
Median rent86% pricier than other cities
Safety36% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Connecticut and the picture shifts: Bridgeport ranks #34 of 47 Connecticut cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Bridgeport against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Connecticut only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Connecticut-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Bridgeport near the bottom of Connecticut's cities
Among the 207 Connecticut cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Bridgeport ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Bridgeport only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#184 of 198
7th percentile in Connecticut
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 207
0th percentile in Connecticut
Median Home Value
#154 of 201
23rd percentile in Connecticut
Poverty Rate
#13 of 204
93rd percentile in Connecticut
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#173 of 207
16th percentile in Connecticut
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Connecticut only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
30th percentile nationally for median household income · 36th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Bridgeport's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Bridgeport's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Bridgeport's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$252,40044th percentilemore affordable than 44% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. 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 ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Bridgeport's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,898 of 15,516
More affordable than 23% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#391 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 4.5×, Bridgeport sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,898 of 15,516 and #391 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$56,584Bridgeport, CT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Bridgeport, CT median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Bridgeport, CT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)23.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)18.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
148,012
Median Income
$56,584
Median Home Value
$252,400
Median Age
36.4
Poverty Rate
18.3%
Labor force participation
60.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
23.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1861.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
392.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1469.0
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
44
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Bridgeport's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
147,672 residents
2021
148,162 residents
2022
148,906 residents
2023
150,117 residents
2024
151,415 residents
2025
152,273 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
485
housing units authorized
Single-Family
14
detached homes
Multifamily
471
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
45
26
19
$5.1M
2020
71
25
46
$5.7M
2021
62
28
34
$5.6M
2022
490
14
476
$106.3M
2023
15
5
10
$1.7M
2024
485
14
471
$101.6M
Permit volume increased 978% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
28.0 minutes
Drive Alone
63.4%
Carpool
16.1%
Public Transit
7.1%
Walk
4.2%
Work from Home
6.4%
Other
2.8%
Based on 70,757 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Connecticut statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $345
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Connecticut at $345 (electricity about $175 , water and sewer about $60 ).
These are Connecticut statewide averages, not a meter reading for Bridgeport. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Connecticut's BEA cost-of-living index is 103.6 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Bridgeport is $1,955/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Connecticut statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 87.6 / 100 (Very High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Connecticut statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Bridgeport sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Bridgeport compares to similar-size Connecticut cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.