Connecticut
State, USPS CT · 41.62, -72.73
9 findings fired for Connecticut this run, against a typical home value of $450,873 in August 2026 and covered employment of 1,668,156 in 2026 Q1.
- 72nd pct · 15th of 51 US states · median $350,752
Zillow Home Value Index, state file: the middle third of the market, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 90th pct · 6th of 51 US states · median 2.1%
Zillow's own twelve-month change on the state row.
- 43rd pct · 30th of 52 US states · median 1,934,777
BLS QCEW covered employment, third month of the quarter, all ownerships.
- 94th pct · 4th of 52 US states · median $1,416
Total quarterly wages divided by average employment and by thirteen weeks; one covered job, not a household.
- 47th pct · 28th of 52 US states · median 161,279
BLS QCEW reporting units, all ownerships.
- 30th pct · 35th of 52 US states · median -0.2%
BLS's own published over-the-year change. The newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so this is their figure, not a subtraction of ours.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Home values #
Typical home $450,873 (Aug 2026), +5.0% over one year, +40.3% over five
- 72nd pct · 15th of 51 US states · median $350,752
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | $450,873 · +5.0% 1-yr |
Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.
Rent #
Rather than print an empty row that suggests a number could arrive, the rows are omitted and the reason is stated. The rent figures for this state's counties are on their own pages.
Jobs & wages #
1.67 m jobs at 149,963 employers (2026 Q1); -0.4% jobs and +5.2% average weekly wage over the year
- 43rd pct · 30th of 52 US states · median 1,934,777
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 1.67 m jobs · $2,080/wk · -0.4% YoY |
| Sector | Jobs | Average weekly wage | Location quotient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health care and social assistance | 303,236 | $1,270 | 1.21 |
| Retail trade | 160,140 | $902 | 0.99 |
| Manufacturing | 152,498 | $2,359 | 1.14 |
| Accommodation and food services | 122,374 | $612 | 0.82 |
| Professional and technical services | 101,384 | $3,161 | 0.88 |
| Finance and insurance | 95,860 | $8,630 | 1.41 |
| Administrative and waste services | 82,111 | $1,606 | 0.87 |
| Educational services | 68,575 | $1,637 | 1.91 |
| Transportation and warehousing | 65,262 | $1,241 | 0.93 |
| Construction | 59,777 | $1,715 | 0.68 |
| Wholesale trade | 59,018 | $3,048 | 0.92 |
| Other services | 54,852 | $1,010 | 1.10 |
| Information | 30,413 | $3,693 | 0.99 |
| Management of companies | 30,033 | $5,032 | 1.08 |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | 24,990 | $830 | 0.91 |
| Real estate and rental | 19,029 | $1,971 | 0.74 |
| Utilities | 5,352 | $3,528 | 0.81 |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | 4,489 | $1,048 | 0.37 |
| Unclassified | 1,301 | $2,965 | 0.37 |
| Mining, oil and gas | 440 | $1,404 | 0.07 |
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.
Affordability #
A 30-year mortgage on the typical home at 7.28% costs about $2,468 a month in principal and interest.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $450,873 × 80% = $360,699, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $2,468/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $2,080 × 52 / 12 = $9,013) = 27% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $450,873 / ($2,080 × 52) = 4.2
Estimate. Principal and interest on the typical home with 20% down over 30 years at this week's Freddie Mac average rate; compared with the average weekly wage of all jobs covered by unemployment insurance in the area (BLS QCEW), which is pay per job, not household income.
Trade gateways #
11 ports within 200 km, 0 land crossings within 250 km
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 5.34 m TEU 2023 · #2 US | 149 km |
| Boston | 161,162 TEU 2021 · #25 US | 161 km |
| Bridgeport | medium harbour, channel 7.9 m | 63 km |
| Providence | medium harbour, channel 11.0 m | 112 km |
| Albany | medium harbour, channel 9.4 m | 142 km |
These are the gateways near the state’s centroid, within the radii named above, not every port and crossing inside the state boundary. lib/economy searches a disc around a point; there is no clip-to-boundary path.
NGA World Port Index harbours (medium and large, or any with BTS statistics) and BTS Border Crossing Entry Data ports; BTS Port Performance volumes for the latest reporting year.
National pulse #
1 national series, latest 2026-10-01
FRED series (Freddie Mac, Census, BEA, EIA, BLS, S&P) and BTS Supply Chain and Freight Indicators; each item carries its own date and source.
Largest counties #
The 9 counties of Connecticut with the most covered jobs.
| County | Jobs | FIPS |
|---|---|---|
| Capitol Planning Region | 526,794 | 09110 |
| Western Connecticut Planning Region | 283,056 | 09190 |
| South Central Connecticut Planning Region | 274,368 | 09170 |
| Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | 156,291 | 09140 |
| Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 127,451 | 09180 |
| Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 113,518 | 09120 |
| Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region | 72,212 | 09130 |
| Northwest Hills Planning Region | 36,784 | 09160 |
| Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 28,642 | 09150 |
Ranked by BLS QCEW third-month covered employment from the same nationwide table the screener uses. A county whose cell BLS withheld is absent from the ranking, not last in it.
Metropolitan areas #
5 metropolitan statistical areas lie wholly or partly in Connecticut.
| Metropolitan area | CBSA |
|---|---|
| Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT | 14860 |
| Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT | 25540 |
| New Haven, CT | 35300 |
| Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT | 35980 |
| Waterbury-Shelton, CT | 47930 |
From the bundled place manifest, which derives its metro table offline from the committed BLS OEWS metro index. A metro that spans a state line appears on both states' pages.
Water #
Drought, reservoirs, stream gauges and groundwater wells are reported around a point, with every row's distance printed. That is a county page's section, not a state's.
National indicator context #
None of these series is keyed to this state. They are national, gauge, single-state or port series, shown as context for the numbers above.
| Indicator | Latest | Unit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Memphis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Ohio River at Louisville, stage | 16.50 | ft | ok |
| Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) | 5,170.00 | ft³/s | ok |
| Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full | 71.30 | % | ok |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly | 258,700.00 | trucks | ok |
| Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual | 10,513,167.00 | TEU | watch |
| Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports | 6.00 | ships | ok |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate | 6,830.00 | $ per 40 ft box | watch |
| US diesel retail price | not published | $ per gallon | no data |
| WTI crude oil, spot | 96.16 | $ per barrel | watch |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate | 7.28 | % | watch |
| Housing starts, annual rate | 1,275.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Building permits, annual rate | 1,403.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Case-Shiller US home price index | 337.31 | index, Jan 2000 = 100 | ok |
| Unemployment rate | 4.10 | % | ok |
| US goods and services trade balance, monthly | -88,576.00 | $ millions | ok |
| Retail sales excluding food services, monthly | 646,347.00 | $ millions | ok |
lib/indicators has no geographic selection: every registry entry is a United States, gauge, Texas, port, crossing or world series. Reading these as this state's own readings would be wrong.
What changed #
Connecticut: 9 findings, 1 at a watch level and 8 noted
watchConnecticut's covered employment is -0.4% against a year earlier, a watch level here: covered employment below the same quarter a year earlier (BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- test: jobs.yoy.emp = -0.4 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
noteConnecticut's average weekly wage was 5.2% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- +5.2 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
- the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published
noteConnecticut's typical home value rose 0.5% from $448,689 in July 2026 to $450,873 in August 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- +0.5% = (450873.1542152898 - 448689.20463152305) / 448689.20463152305 × 100
- 450873.1542152898 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08
- 448689.20463152305 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-07
noteConnecticut's covered employment was 0.4% lower than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- -0.4 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
- the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published
noteConnecticut's average weekly wage of $2,080 ranks 4th of 52 US states, against a median of $1,416.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 94 on the 0-to-100 scale across 52 US states that published jobs.avgWeeklyWage
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
The full Connecticut brief, with the arithmetic behind every sentence.
Every sentence in the brief is written by a rule table in lib/brief, not generated, and each one can print the arithmetic behind its number.