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Place dossier plate
SheetCT-TORRINGTON-CT · Torrington, CT 35,481 pop · income 49th pct · 37 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 Torrington
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Torrington on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Norwich · lowest
64,185
Norwich · lowest
64,185 median HH income
53.8% of the leader · rank #1
Torrington · this city
69,611
Torrington · this city
69,611 median HH income
58.3% of the leader · rank #2
Bristol · near
69,613
Bristol · near
69,613 median HH income
58.3% of the leader · rank #3
Putney · near
69,615
Putney · near
69,615 median HH income
58.3% of the leader · rank #4
Lubeck · near
69,616
Lubeck · near
69,616 median HH income
58.3% of the leader · rank #5
Sunbrook · near
69,618
Sunbrook · near
69,618 median HH income
58.3% of the leader · rank #6
Fair Oaks · highest
119,387
Fair Oaks · highest
119,387 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 Torrington 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: 35,481.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Torrington - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Torrington places in the 49th percentile for household income and the 59th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
49th
percentile, household income
42nd
percentile, home value
86th
percentile, median rent
59th
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: Torrington, CT
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 35,481 residents in Torrington, a small city within Connecticut. Torrington households earn a median of $69,611 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.0%. Typical homes in Torrington are valued around $195,800, and the median resident age is 43.4 years. 24.5% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 61.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 15 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 400% from five years earlier. Torrington reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1120.4 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as 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. Monthly utility costs average around $345 across Connecticut, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Torrington report an average commute of 24.7 minutes, with 79.8% driving alone and 7.9% 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 Torrington'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 housing and income to population change to within-city variation to comparison shortlist to reported crime to work and mobility to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Torrington, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Torrington?
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 9.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Is Torrington growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +435 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 15 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What can 37 Census tracts reveal inside Torrington?
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.
PlainCities matches 37 Census tracts to this city.
Which cities make useful reference points for Torrington?
Within Connecticut, the closest population matches are Manchester (36,561 residents, $76,780 income); Naugatuck (31,634 residents, $92,184 income); Norwich (39,992 residents, $64,185 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Stockbridge, GA (35,475 residents); Springville, UT (35,474 residents); Amherst, MA (35,472 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.
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.
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 Torrington?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1120.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 51% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1039.0
Violent rate
81.4
Total reported rate
1120.4
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Torrington?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 79.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 24.7 minutes.
Public transit
0.4%
Work from home
7.9%
Drive alone
79.8%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 18,020 workers age 16+.
What does the education layer cover for Torrington?
The NCES join finds 7 public schools within the city match. 24.5% 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 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.
Matched public schools
7
Bachelor's degree+
24.5%
Poverty estimate
9.0%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Below median income · poverty 9.0% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.6 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, Connecticut average
D
City profile score · Torrington, CT
48/100
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.
Violent crime B+
81 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income D
$69,611
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share D
24.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate D
9.0%
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.
Torrington profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 75/100 (B+) · 81 /100k
Household income: 49/100 (D) · $69,611
Bachelor's+ share: 47/100 (D) · 24.5%
Poverty rate: 44/100 (D) · 9.0%
Cost of living: 24/100 (F) · 103.6 index
Where Torrington sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Torrington'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 - Torrington highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Torrington, CT (this city): home $195,800, crime 1,120/100k
Stockbridge, GA : home $248,000, crime 2,580/100k
Springville, UT : home $429,200, crime 985/100k
Amherst, MA : home $454,000, crime 467/100k
Addison, IL : home $318,000, crime 1,034/100k
Manchester, CT : home $205,800, crime 2,248/100k
Naugatuck, CT : home $241,600, crime 1,071/100k
Norwich, CT : home $231,300, crime 1,466/100k
Newington, CT : home $279,900, crime 2,212/100k
Shelton, CT : home $435,700, crime 751/100k
East Haven, CT : home $274,900, crime 2,051/100k
How does Torrington compare to other US cities?
Torrington measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income49% higher than other cities
Home value42% pricier than other cities
Median rent86% pricier than other cities
Safety59% 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: Torrington ranks #19 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 Torrington 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 Torrington near the bottom of Connecticut's cities
Among the 207 Connecticut cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Torrington ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Torrington only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#169 of 198
15th percentile in Connecticut
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 207
0th percentile in Connecticut
Median Home Value
#195 of 201
3rd percentile in Connecticut
Poverty Rate
#37 of 204
81st percentile in Connecticut
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#171 of 207
17th 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
49th percentile nationally for median household income · 59th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Torrington's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Torrington'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 Torrington's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$195,800Among the most affordablemore affordable than 58% 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
Torrington's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,654 of 15,516
More affordable than 64% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#666 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.8×, Torrington sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,654 of 15,516 and #666 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
$69,611Torrington, CT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Torrington, 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 Torrington, CT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)24.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
35,481
Median Income
$69,611
Median Home Value
$195,800
Median Age
43.4
Poverty Rate
9.0%
Labor force participation
61.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
24.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1120.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
81.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1039.0
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
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Torrington's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
35,361 residents
2021
35,526 residents
2022
35,548 residents
2023
35,549 residents
2024
35,730 residents
2025
35,796 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
15
housing units authorized
Single-Family
9
detached homes
Multifamily
6
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
3
3
0
$0.3M
2020
6
6
0
$1.0M
2021
7
7
0
$1.0M
2022
11
11
0
$1.8M
2023
8
8
0
$1.6M
2024
15
9
6
$3.5M
Permit volume increased 400% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
24.7 minutes
Drive Alone
79.8%
Carpool
8.9%
Public Transit
0.4%
Walk
1.9%
Work from Home
7.9%
Other
1.1%
Based on 18,020 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 Torrington. 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 Torrington 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 Torrington sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Torrington 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 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.