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SheetCT-DANBURY-CT · Danbury, CT 86,086 pop · income 65th pct
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 Danbury
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Danbury on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Waterbury · lowest
51,642
Waterbury · lowest
51,642 median HH income
33.6% of the leader · rank #1
Novelty · near
83,409
Novelty · near
83,409 median HH income
54.3% of the leader · rank #2
Deercroft · near
83,409
Deercroft · near
83,409 median HH income
54.3% of the leader · rank #3
Danbury · this city
83,422
Danbury · this city
83,422 median HH income
54.3% of the leader · rank #4
Upper Exeter · near
83,429
Upper Exeter · near
83,429 median HH income
54.3% of the leader · rank #5
Waikoloa Beac… · near
83,438
Waikoloa Beac… · near
83,438 median HH income
54.3% of the leader · rank #6
Livermore · highest
153,602
Livermore · highest
153,602 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 Danbury 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: 86,086.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Danbury - the verdict
Nationally, Danbury sits in the 65th percentile for household income and the 45th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
65th
percentile, household income
76th
percentile, home value
86th
percentile, median rent
45th
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: Danbury, CT
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 86,086 residents in Danbury, a small city within Connecticut. The typical household in Danbury brings in $83,422 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.6%. Home values in Danbury run a median of $381,600, and the median resident age is 40.5 years. About 34.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 65.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 18 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 83% from five years earlier. Danbury reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1518.7 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 51.3°F with 53.0 inches of precipitation per year and 49.3 inches of snowfall.
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). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,955 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $345 across Connecticut, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. The average commute for Danbury workers runs 27.5 minutes, with 68.2% driving alone and 12.0% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 87.6 out of 100 (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Danbury'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 reported crime to comparison shortlist to schools and households to climate and hazard context to work and mobility to population change to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Danbury, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, local building permits, annual population history, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in Danbury?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1518.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 33% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Danbury?
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.
Within Connecticut, the closest population matches are Norwalk (91,375 residents, $105,301 income); New Britain (73,301 residents, $57,036 income); West Hartford (63,809 residents, $125,616 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Bryan, TX (86,169 residents); Mission, TX (86,234 residents); Hawthorne, CA (85,933 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.
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.
The NCES join finds 20 public schools within the city match. 34.5% 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 two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 51.3°F, with 53.0 inches of precipitation and 49.3 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Connecticut is 87.6 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Danbury?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 68.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 27.5 minutes.
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.
Drive alone
68.2%
Work from home
12.0%
Public transit
2.4%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 45,205 workers age 16+.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,955 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 18 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
2020 estimate
86,078
2025 estimate
89,033
Period change
+3.4%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Danbury?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
4.6×
Home value
$381,600
Household income
$83,422
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above median income · poverty 8.6% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.6 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, Connecticut average
D
City profile score · Danbury, CT
47/100
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 B-
34.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C+
$83,422
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
8.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
262 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
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.
Danbury profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 66/100 (B-) · 34.5%
Household income: 63/100 (C+) · $83,422
Poverty rate: 45/100 (D) · 8.6%
Violent crime: 39/100 (F) · 262 /100k
Cost of living: 24/100 (F) · 103.6 index
Where Danbury sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Danbury'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 - Danbury highlighted among 13 peers.Read the chart values
Danbury, CT (this city): home $381,600, crime 1,519/100k
Bryan, TX : home $210,600, crime 1,833/100k
Mission, TX : home $160,800, crime 1,338/100k
Hawthorne, CA : home $813,700, crime 3,193/100k
Whittier, CA : home $751,700, crime 2,866/100k
Livermore, CA : home $1,038,600, crime 2,560/100k
Lake Forest, CA : home $876,300, crime 975/100k
Norwalk, CT : home $535,000, crime 1,590/100k
New Britain, CT : home $207,300, crime 2,347/100k
West Hartford, CT : home $391,200, crime 2,796/100k
Bristol, CT : home $252,300, crime 1,016/100k
Meriden, CT : home $221,600, crime 1,817/100k
Waterbury, CT : home $185,400, crime 3,241/100k
How does Danbury compare to other US cities?
Here's how Danbury stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income65% higher than other cities
Home value76% pricier than other cities
Median rent86% pricier than other cities
Safety45% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Connecticut alone, Danbury ranks #28 of 47 Connecticut cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Danbury 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 Danbury near the bottom of Connecticut's cities
Among the 207 Connecticut cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Danbury ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Danbury only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#135 of 198
32nd percentile in Connecticut
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 207
0th percentile in Connecticut
Median Home Value
#90 of 201
55th percentile in Connecticut
Poverty Rate
#39 of 204
81st percentile in Connecticut
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#149 of 207
28th 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
65th percentile nationally for median household income · 45th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Danbury's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Danbury'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 Danbury's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$381,60024th percentilemore affordable than 24% 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
Danbury's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,142 of 15,516
More affordable than 22% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#400 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 4.6×, Danbury sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,142 of 15,516 and #400 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
$83,422Danbury, CT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Danbury, 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 Danbury, CT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)34.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
86,086
Median Income
$83,422
Median Home Value
$381,600
Median Age
40.5
Poverty Rate
8.6%
Labor force participation
65.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
34.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1518.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
262.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1256.7
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
51.3°F
Annual Precipitation
53.0"
Annual Snowfall
49.3"
Schools
Total Schools
20
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Danbury's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
86,078 residents
2021
87,087 residents
2022
87,284 residents
2023
87,294 residents
2024
88,924 residents
2025
89,033 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
18
housing units authorized
Single-Family
16
detached homes
Multifamily
2
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
106
90
16
$25.8M
2020
188
88
100
$24.5M
2021
71
69
2
$16.4M
2022
38
38
0
$10.3M
2023
4
2
2
$0.8M
2024
18
16
2
$5.9M
Permit volume decreased 83% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
27.5 minutes
Drive Alone
68.2%
Carpool
13.7%
Public Transit
2.4%
Walk
1.5%
Work from Home
12.0%
Other
2.2%
Based on 45,205 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 Danbury. 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 Danbury 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 Danbury sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Danbury 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.