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SheetCT-MILFORD-CT · Milford, CT 50,749 pop · income 83rd 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 Milford
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Milford on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Mishawaka · lowest
53,120
Mishawaka · lowest
53,120 median HH income
46.3% of the leader · rank #1
Crab Orchard · near
110,125
Crab Orchard · near
110,125 median HH income
96.0% of the leader · rank #2
South Amboy · near
110,125
South Amboy · near
110,125 median HH income
96.0% of the leader · rank #3
Milford · this city
110,126
Milford · this city
110,126 median HH income
96.0% of the leader · rank #4
Ramblewood · near
110,130
Ramblewood · near
110,130 median HH income
96.0% of the leader · rank #5
Riviera Beach · near
110,136
Riviera Beach · near
110,136 median HH income
96.0% of the leader · rank #6
Shelton · highest
114,739
Shelton · highest
114,739 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 Milford 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: 50,749.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Milford - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Milford lands in the 83rd percentile for household income and the 27th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
83rd
percentile, household income
75th
percentile, home value
86th
percentile, median rent
27th
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: Milford, CT
Connecticut's Milford is a small city, with 50,749 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Milford report a median income of $110,126 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.8%. Home values in Milford run a median of $377,400, and the median resident age is 46.7 years. 48.4% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 65.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2212.4 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Connecticut carries a cost-of-living premium: the state registers 103.6 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. 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. Workers in Milford report an average commute of 21.8 minutes, with 75.2% driving alone and 15.5% 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 Milford'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 population change to housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Milford, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, 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 Milford?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2212.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 3% 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 Milford?
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 East Hartford (50,798 residents, $66,943 income); Middletown (47,646 residents, $73,979 income); West Haven (55,147 residents, $73,566 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Enid, OK (50,821 residents); Delano, CA (50,835 residents); Cuyahoga Falls, OH (50,864 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 14 public schools within the city match. 48.4% 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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +804 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.6% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. 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.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Milford?
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. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.4×
Home value
$377,400
Household income
$110,126
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Milford?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.8 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. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Drive alone
75.2%
Work from home
15.5%
Public transit
2.7%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 27,854 workers age 16+.
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 A-
48.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A-
$110,126
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B-
117 /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.
Milford profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 82/100 (A-) · 48.4%
Household income: 81/100 (A-) · $110,126
Poverty rate: 80/100 (A-) · 2.8%
Violent crime: 67/100 (B-) · 117 /100k
Cost of living: 24/100 (F) · 103.6 index
Where Milford sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Milford'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 - Milford highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Milford, CT (this city): home $377,400, crime 2,212/100k
Enid, OK : home $143,500, crime 2,922/100k
Delano, CA : home $270,300, crime 1,456/100k
Cuyahoga Falls, OH : home $174,700, crime 2,020/100k
Grapevine, TX : home $470,400, crime 2,244/100k
Mishawaka, IN : home $140,600, crime 2,806/100k
East Hartford, CT : home $215,400, crime 1,759/100k
Middletown, CT : home $279,500, crime 1,213/100k
West Haven, CT : home $265,200, crime 1,343/100k
Shelton, CT : home $435,700, crime 751/100k
Meriden, CT : home $221,600, crime 1,817/100k
Bristol, CT : home $252,300, crime 1,016/100k
How does Milford compare to other US cities?
Here's how Milford stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income83% higher than other cities
Home value75% pricier than other cities
Median rent86% pricier than other cities
Safety27% 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: Milford ranks #36 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 Milford 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 Milford near the bottom of Connecticut's cities
Among the 207 Connecticut cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Milford ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Milford only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#89 of 198
55th percentile in Connecticut
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 207
0th percentile in Connecticut
Median Home Value
#96 of 201
52nd percentile in Connecticut
Poverty Rate
#101 of 204
49th percentile in Connecticut
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#102 of 207
51st 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
83rd percentile nationally for median household income · 27th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Milford's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Milford'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 Milford's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$377,40025th percentilemore affordable than 25% 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
Milford's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,688 of 15,516
More affordable than 44% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#197 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.4×, Milford sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,688 of 15,516 and #197 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
$110,126Milford, CT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Milford, 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 Milford, CT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)48.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
50,749
Median Income
$110,126
Median Home Value
$377,400
Median Age
46.7
Poverty Rate
2.8%
Labor force participation
65.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
48.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2212.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
116.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2095.5
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
14
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Milford's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
50,411 residents
2021
50,444 residents
2022
50,497 residents
2023
50,624 residents
2024
51,034 residents
2025
51,215 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.8 minutes
Drive Alone
75.2%
Carpool
4.9%
Public Transit
2.7%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
15.5%
Other
1.1%
Based on 27,854 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 Milford. 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 Milford 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 Milford sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Milford 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 ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.