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SheetCT-SANDY-HOOK-CT · Sandy Hook, CT 9,718 pop · income 93rd 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 Sandy Hook
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Sandy Hook on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
New Square · lowest
28,880
New Square · lowest
28,880 median HH income
11.6% of the leader · rank #1
Fremont Hills · near
144,250
Fremont Hills · near
144,250 median HH income
57.7% of the leader · rank #2
Newburyport · near
144,259
Newburyport · near
144,259 median HH income
57.7% of the leader · rank #3
Wyncote · near
144,281
Wyncote · near
144,281 median HH income
57.7% of the leader · rank #4
Sandy Hook · this city
144,335
Sandy Hook · this city
144,335 median HH income
57.7% of the leader · rank #5
Carver · near
144,408
Carver · near
144,408 median HH income
57.8% of the leader · rank #6
Riverside · highest
250,001
Riverside · highest
250,001 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Sandy Hook on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 9,718.
Nationally, Sandy Hook sits in the 93rd percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
93rd
percentile, household income
82nd
percentile, home value
86th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Sandy Hook, CT
Sandy Hook is a small town in Connecticut, home to 9,718 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Sandy Hook brings in $144,335 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.0%. Sandy Hook's housing stock carries a median value of $460,600, and the median resident age is 44.6 years. About 56.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 65.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 2 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,955 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $345 across Connecticut, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Sandy Hook'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 work and mobility to schools and households to comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Sandy Hook, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Sandy Hook?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
What does the education layer cover for Sandy Hook?
The matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 56.9% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Sandy Hook?
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.
Within Connecticut, the closest population matches are Kensington (9,936 residents, $105,000 income); Groton (9,343 residents, $69,811 income); Trumbull Center (10,137 residents, $124,547 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Beverly Hills, FL (9,716 residents); Hartland, WI (9,716 residents); South Amboy, NJ (9,714 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Sandy Hook?
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 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Household income A+
$144,335
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
56.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B+
3.0%
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.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Sandy Hook profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 94/100 (A+) · $144,335
Bachelor's+ share: 90/100 (A+) · 56.9%
Poverty rate: 79/100 (B+) · 3.0%
Cost of living: 24/100 (F) · 103.6 index
How does Sandy Hook compare to other US cities?
Sandy Hook measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income93% higher than other cities
Home value82% pricier than other cities
Median rent86% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Sandy Hook 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 Sandy Hook near the bottom of Connecticut's cities
Among the 207 Connecticut cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Sandy Hook ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Sandy Hook only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#56 of 198
72nd percentile in Connecticut
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 207
0th percentile in Connecticut
Median Home Value
#68 of 201
66th percentile in Connecticut
Poverty Rate
#96 of 204
52nd percentile in Connecticut
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#80 of 207
61st 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
93rd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Sandy Hook's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$460,60018th percentilemore affordable than 18% 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
Sandy Hook's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,646 of 15,516
More affordable than 51% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,326 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.2×, Sandy Hook sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,646 of 15,516 and #6,326 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$144,335Sandy Hook, CT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Sandy Hook, 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 Sandy Hook, CT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)56.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.0%
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
9,718
Median Income
$144,335
Median Home Value
$460,600
Median Age
44.6
Poverty Rate
3.0%
Labor force participation
65.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
56.9%
Schools
Total Schools
2
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
73.7%
Carpool
5.0%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
0.5%
Work from Home
18.9%
Other
1.7%
Based on 5,070 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 Sandy Hook. 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 Sandy Hook 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 Sandy Hook sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Sandy Hook 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, 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.