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Place dossier plate
SheetCT-STORRS-CT · Storrs, CT 13,502 pop · income 4th pct · 26 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 Storrs
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Storrs on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Storrs · this city · lowest
33,125
Storrs · this city · lowest
33,125 median HH income
22.7% of the leader · rank #1
Aliceville · near
33,125
Aliceville · near
33,125 median HH income
22.7% of the leader · rank #2
Waldo · near
33,125
Waldo · near
33,125 median HH income
22.7% of the leader · rank #3
Barwick · near
33,125
Barwick · near
33,125 median HH income
22.7% of the leader · rank #4
Moline · near
33,125
Moline · near
33,125 median HH income
22.7% of the leader · rank #5
Orange · highest
145,625
Orange · highest
145,625 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
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 Storrs 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: 13,502.
Nationally, Storrs sits in the 4th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
4th
percentile, household income
66th
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: Storrs, CT
Connecticut's Storrs is a small town, with 13,502 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Storrs households earn a median of $33,125 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.6%. Storrs's housing stock carries a median value of $304,600, and the median resident age is 20.4 years. About 68.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 42.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 49.6°F with 49.3 inches of precipitation per year and 39.0 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). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,955 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Connecticut's average monthly utility costs around $345 (state average). 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 Storrs'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 work and mobility to schools and households to within-city variation to climate and hazard context to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Storrs, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, 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 Storrs?
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 Orange (14,251 residents, $145,625 income); Windsor Locks (12,555 residents, $90,417 income); Greenwich (14,528 residents, $136,154 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are University Heights, OH (13,508 residents); Vineyard, UT (13,510 residents); Hazel Crest, IL (13,493 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 journey to work look like in Storrs?
Working from home is the largest reported mode at 35.9%. 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.
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 3 public schools within the city match. 68.6% 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.
PlainCities matches 26 Census tracts to this city.
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.
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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Storrs?
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 49.6°F, with 49.3 inches of precipitation and 39.0 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.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
87.6
Annual precipitation
49.3 in
Mean temperature
49.6°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
How far does income reach against housing in Storrs?
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 9.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
9.2×
Home value
$304,600
Household income
$33,125
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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+
68.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.6%
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.
Household income F
$33,125
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Storrs profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 97/100 (A+) · 68.6%
Poverty rate: 81/100 (A-) · 2.6%
Cost of living: 24/100 (F) · 103.6 index
Household income: 0/100 (F) · $33,125
How does Storrs compare to other US cities?
Where Storrs sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income4% higher than other cities
Home value66% 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 Storrs 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 Storrs near the bottom of Connecticut's cities
Among the 207 Connecticut cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Storrs ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Storrs only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#196 of 198
1st percentile in Connecticut
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 207
0th percentile in Connecticut
Median Home Value
#126 of 201
37th percentile in Connecticut
Poverty Rate
#110 of 204
45th percentile in Connecticut
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#49 of 207
76th 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
4th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Storrs's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$304,60034th percentilemore affordable than 34% 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
Storrs's home-value-to-income ratio: 9.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#15,271 of 15,516
More affordable than 2% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,257 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 9.2×, Storrs sits in the pressured band:
national rank #15,271 of 15,516 and #3,257 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
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
$33,125Storrs, CT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Storrs, 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 Storrs, CT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)68.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)42.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
13,502
Median Income
$33,125
Median Home Value
$304,600
Median Age
20.4
Poverty Rate
2.6%
Labor force participation
42.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
68.6%
Climate
Avg Temperature
49.6°F
Annual Precipitation
49.3"
Annual Snowfall
39.0"
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
26.9%
Carpool
4.8%
Public Transit
6.4%
Walk
25.6%
Work from Home
35.9%
Based on 4,818 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 Storrs. 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 Storrs 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 Storrs sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Storrs 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.