Side-by-side metrics and state or size-class ranks use the same Census and FBI fields shown on this profile. Results stay in the URL so you can bookmark or share them.
Place dossier plate
SheetCT-WETHERSFIELD-CT · Wethersfield, CT 27,180 pop · income 87th 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 Wethersfield
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Wethersfield on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Kent · lowest
42,524
Kent · lowest
42,524 median HH income
27.3% of the leader · rank #1
Laotto · near
118,500
Laotto · near
118,500 median HH income
76.0% of the leader · rank #2
Wethersfield · this city
118,523
Wethersfield · this city
118,523 median HH income
76.0% of the leader · rank #3
Arlington Hei… · near
118,529
Arlington Hei… · near
118,529 median HH income
76.0% of the leader · rank #4
Arlington Hei… · near
118,532
Arlington Hei… · near
118,532 median HH income
76.0% of the leader · rank #5
Palo Cedro · near
118,542
Palo Cedro · near
118,542 median HH income
76.0% of the leader · rank #6
Celina · highest
155,875
Celina · highest
155,875 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 Wethersfield 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: 27,180.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Wethersfield - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Wethersfield lands in the 87th percentile for household income and the 48th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
87th
percentile, household income
65th
percentile, home value
86th
percentile, median rent
48th
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: Wethersfield, CT
Wethersfield is a small city in Connecticut, home to 27,180 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Wethersfield households earn a median of $118,523 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.7%. Typical homes in Wethersfield are valued around $300,500, and the median resident age is 44.1 years. Educational attainment runs 54.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 64.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Wethersfield reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1429.5 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. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Connecticut's average monthly utility costs around $345 (state average). 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 Wethersfield'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 reported crime to comparison shortlist 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 Wethersfield, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Wethersfield?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.7%, 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Wethersfield?
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 1429.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 37% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Wethersfield?
Within Connecticut, the closest population matches are New London (27,199 residents, $60,123 income); East Haven (27,729 residents, $86,498 income); North Haven (24,177 residents, $126,807 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Balch Springs, TX (27,181 residents); Kent, OH (27,190 residents); Celina, TX (27,141 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 journey to work look like in Wethersfield?
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 72.5%. 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Wethersfield?
The NCES join finds 8 public schools within the city match. 54.5% 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
8
Bachelor's degree+
54.5%
Poverty estimate
3.7%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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
54.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A
$118,523
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime A-
59 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate B
3.7%
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.
Wethersfield profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 88/100 (A) · 54.5%
Household income: 85/100 (A) · $118,523
Violent crime: 81/100 (A-) · 59 /100k
Poverty rate: 74/100 (B) · 3.7%
Cost of living: 24/100 (F) · 103.6 index
Where Wethersfield sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Wethersfield'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 - Wethersfield highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Wethersfield, CT (this city): home $300,500, crime 1,430/100k
Balch Springs, TX : home $208,200, crime 3,233/100k
Kent, OH : home $210,700, crime 1,399/100k
Celina, TX : home $458,000, crime 1,467/100k
Mason City, IA : home $130,000, crime 2,546/100k
Pooler, GA : home $289,000, crime 1,796/100k
New London, CT : home $234,800, crime 1,594/100k
East Haven, CT : home $274,900, crime 2,051/100k
North Haven, CT : home $360,100, crime 2,662/100k
Newington, CT : home $279,900, crime 2,212/100k
Naugatuck, CT : home $241,600, crime 1,071/100k
Ansonia, CT : home $269,300, crime 1,475/100k
How does Wethersfield compare to other US cities?
Here's how Wethersfield stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income87% higher than other cities
Home value65% pricier than other cities
Median rent86% pricier than other cities
Safety48% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Connecticut, Wethersfield ranks #25 of 47 Connecticut cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Wethersfield 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 Wethersfield near the bottom of Connecticut's cities
Among the 207 Connecticut cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Wethersfield ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Wethersfield only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#80 of 198
60th percentile in Connecticut
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 207
0th percentile in Connecticut
Median Home Value
#128 of 201
36th percentile in Connecticut
Poverty Rate
#81 of 204
59th percentile in Connecticut
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#87 of 207
57th 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
87th percentile nationally for median household income · 48th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Wethersfield's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Wethersfield'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 Wethersfield's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$300,50035th percentilemore affordable than 35% 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
Wethersfield's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,177 of 15,516
More affordable than 73% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#380 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.5×, Wethersfield sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,177 of 15,516 and #380 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
$118,523Wethersfield, CT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Wethersfield, 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 Wethersfield, CT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)54.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.7%
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
27,180
Median Income
$118,523
Median Home Value
$300,500
Median Age
44.1
Poverty Rate
3.7%
Labor force participation
64.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
54.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1429.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
59.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1370.4
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
8
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
72.5%
Carpool
7.9%
Public Transit
0.6%
Walk
1.1%
Work from Home
16.5%
Other
1.4%
Based on 14,187 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 Wethersfield. 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 Wethersfield 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 Wethersfield sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Wethersfield 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.