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Place dossier plate
SheetCT-WEST-HARTFORD-CT · West Hartford, CT 63,809 pop · income 89th 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 West Hartford
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest West Hartford on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
New Britain · lowest
57,036
New Britain · lowest
57,036 median HH income
40.6% of the leader · rank #1
Aurora · near
125,567
Aurora · near
125,567 median HH income
89.3% of the leader · rank #2
Ko Olina · near
125,577
Ko Olina · near
125,577 median HH income
89.3% of the leader · rank #3
Dumont · near
125,585
Dumont · near
125,585 median HH income
89.3% of the leader · rank #4
West Hartford · this city
125,616
West Hartford · this city
125,616 median HH income
89.3% of the leader · rank #5
Rockford Bay · near
125,625
Rockford Bay · near
125,625 median HH income
89.3% of the leader · rank #6
Laguna Niguel · highest
140,605
Laguna Niguel · highest
140,605 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 West Hartford 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: 63,809.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
West Hartford - the verdict
Nationally, West Hartford sits in the 89th percentile for household income and the 18th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
89th
percentile, household income
77th
percentile, home value
86th
percentile, median rent
18th
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: West Hartford, CT
Connecticut's West Hartford is a small city, with 63,809 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in West Hartford brings in $125,616 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.9%. West Hartford's housing stock carries a median value of $391,200, and the median resident age is 40.3 years. About 66.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 65.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
West Hartford's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 2795.9 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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). 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. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 87.6 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of West Hartford'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 work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For West Hartford, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count.
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. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in West Hartford?
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 2795.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 23% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for West Hartford?
Within Connecticut, the closest population matches are Bristol (61,129 residents, $83,458 income); Meriden (60,418 residents, $68,617 income); West Haven (55,147 residents, $73,566 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Port Orange, FL (63,818 residents); Laguna Niguel, CA (64,023 residents); Reston, VA (63,542 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.
What does the education layer cover for West Hartford?
The NCES join finds 17 public schools within the city match. 66.3% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in West Hartford?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.2%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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 West Hartford?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.9%, 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.
Household income
$125,616
Home value
$391,200
Value / income
3.1×
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+
66.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A
$125,616
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime A-
64 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate B+
2.9%
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.
West Hartford profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 95/100 (A+) · 66.3%
Household income: 88/100 (A) · $125,616
Violent crime: 80/100 (A-) · 64 /100k
Poverty rate: 79/100 (B+) · 2.9%
Cost of living: 24/100 (F) · 103.6 index
Where West Hartford sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
West Hartford'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 - West Hartford highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
West Hartford, CT (this city): home $391,200, crime 2,796/100k
Laguna Niguel, CA : home $1,123,000, crime 1,031/100k
San Clemente, CA : home $1,220,500, crime 1,451/100k
Rowlett, TX : home $342,400, crime 1,457/100k
Caldwell, ID : home $322,100, crime 1,430/100k
Bristol, CT : home $252,300, crime 1,016/100k
Meriden, CT : home $221,600, crime 1,817/100k
West Haven, CT : home $265,200, crime 1,343/100k
New Britain, CT : home $207,300, crime 2,347/100k
East Hartford, CT : home $215,400, crime 1,759/100k
Milford, CT : home $377,400, crime 2,212/100k
How does West Hartford compare to other US cities?
Here's how West Hartford stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income89% higher than other cities
Home value77% pricier than other cities
Median rent86% pricier than other cities
Safety18% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Connecticut alone, West Hartford ranks #42 of 47 Connecticut cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares West Hartford 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 West Hartford near the bottom of Connecticut's cities
Among the 207 Connecticut cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, West Hartford ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares West Hartford only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#71 of 198
64th percentile in Connecticut
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 207
0th percentile in Connecticut
Median Home Value
#88 of 201
56th percentile in Connecticut
Poverty Rate
#98 of 204
51st percentile in Connecticut
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#54 of 207
74th 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
89th percentile nationally for median household income · 18th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
West Hartford's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
West Hartford'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 West Hartford's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$391,20023rd percentilemore affordable than 23% 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
West Hartford's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,248 of 15,516
More affordable than 53% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#132 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.1×, West Hartford sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,248 of 15,516 and #132 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
$125,616West Hartford, CT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context West Hartford, 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 West Hartford, CT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)66.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
63,809
Median Income
$125,616
Median Home Value
$391,200
Median Age
40.3
Poverty Rate
2.9%
Labor force participation
65.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
66.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2795.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
64.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2732.0
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
17
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
69.2%
Carpool
6.3%
Public Transit
1.6%
Walk
1.4%
Work from Home
19.8%
Other
1.7%
Based on 33,251 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 West Hartford. 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 West Hartford 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 West Hartford sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How West Hartford 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.