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Place dossier plate
SheetCT-NEWINGTON-CT · Newington, CT 30,551 pop · income 77th 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 Newington
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Newington on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lawrenceville · lowest
58,606
Lawrenceville · lowest
58,606 median HH income
34.7% of the leader · rank #1
Elysian · near
98,571
Elysian · near
98,571 median HH income
58.4% of the leader · rank #2
Pine Valley · near
98,580
Pine Valley · near
98,580 median HH income
58.4% of the leader · rank #3
Newington · this city
98,585
Newington · this city
98,585 median HH income
58.4% of the leader · rank #4
Reo · near
98,586
Reo · near
98,586 median HH income
58.4% of the leader · rank #5
Muniz · near
98,587
Muniz · near
98,587 median HH income
58.4% of the leader · rank #6
Burlingame · highest
168,832
Burlingame · highest
168,832 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 Newington 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: 30,551.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Newington - the verdict
Newington ranks in the 77th percentile for household income and the 27th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
77th
percentile, household income
62nd
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: Newington, CT
30,551 people live in Newington, Connecticut - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $98,585 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 6.4%. Home values in Newington run a median of $279,900, and the median resident age is 45.2 years. About 40.4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 64.3% 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: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Connecticut scores 103.6 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. 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. Commute times here average 19.0 minutes, with 77.1% driving alone and 13.0% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Newington'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 comparison shortlist to schools and households to work and mobility to housing and income to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Newington, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Newington?
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 Naugatuck (31,634 residents, $92,184 income); East Haven (27,729 residents, $86,498 income); New London (27,199 residents, $60,123 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Franklin Square, NY (30,559 residents); Burlingame, CA (30,526 residents); Gurnee, IL (30,486 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.
What does the education layer cover for Newington?
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 7 public schools within the city match. 40.4% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Newington?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 77.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.0 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Newington?
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 2.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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 Newington?
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.
Total reported rate
2212.4
Violent rate
76.2
Property rate
2136.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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.
Violent crime B+
76 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income B+
$98,585
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
40.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C
6.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better 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.
Newington profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 77/100 (B+) · 76 /100k
Household income: 76/100 (B+) · $98,585
Bachelor's+ share: 75/100 (B+) · 40.4%
Poverty rate: 56/100 (C) · 6.4%
Cost of living: 24/100 (F) · 103.6 index
Where Newington sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Newington'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 - Newington highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Newington, CT (this city): home $279,900, crime 2,212/100k
Burlingame, CA : home $2,000,000+, crime 2,209/100k
Gurnee, IL : home $331,100, crime 2,410/100k
Lawrenceville, GA : home $335,100, crime 2,497/100k
Lafayette, CO : home $647,600, crime 2,953/100k
Naugatuck, CT : home $241,600, crime 1,071/100k
East Haven, CT : home $274,900, crime 2,051/100k
New London, CT : home $234,800, crime 1,594/100k
Wethersfield, CT : home $300,500, crime 1,430/100k
Torrington, CT : home $195,800, crime 1,120/100k
Manchester, CT : home $205,800, crime 2,248/100k
How does Newington compare to other US cities?
Here's how Newington stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income77% higher than other cities
Home value62% 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: Newington ranks #37 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 Newington 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 Newington near the bottom of Connecticut's cities
Among the 207 Connecticut cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Newington ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Newington only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#105 of 198
47th percentile in Connecticut
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 207
0th percentile in Connecticut
Median Home Value
#137 of 201
32nd percentile in Connecticut
Poverty Rate
#53 of 204
74th percentile in Connecticut
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#126 of 207
38th 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
77th percentile nationally for median household income · 27th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Newington's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Newington'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 Newington's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$279,90038th percentilemore affordable than 38% 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
Newington's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,800 of 15,516
More affordable than 63% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#691 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.8×, Newington sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,800 of 15,516 and #691 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$98,585Newington, CT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Newington, 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 Newington, CT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)40.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
30,551
Median Income
$98,585
Median Home Value
$279,900
Median Age
45.2
Poverty Rate
6.4%
Labor force participation
64.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
40.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2212.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
76.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2136.2
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
7
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.0 minutes
Drive Alone
77.1%
Carpool
6.0%
Public Transit
1.5%
Walk
0.2%
Work from Home
13.0%
Other
2.2%
Based on 16,493 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 Newington. 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 Newington 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 Newington sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Newington 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.