Bridgeport, Connecticut
Area Profile
149,153 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Bridgeport, in Greater Bridgeport Planning Region.
How this area ranks
Data updated · 13 sourcesEmployment conditions sit below most comparable cities measured: unemployment is 7.3% and the Opportunity signal places Bridgeport in the bottom 1%.
In the public schools here, 17% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 15.2 students for every teacher.
Residential permitting has slowed: 103 units authorized over the past twelve months, 82% below the prior year.
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At a glance
Jobs & opportunity
Unemployment of 7.3% — higher than in all but 3% of the 4,226 measured US cities.
Employment fell 4.2% over the past year, to 72,403 employed residents.
| Metric | Value | Compared nationally | Source period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Income of new arrivalsGreater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT’s figurefiling years 2022–2023 | $92,231 | 76th percentileof 4,101 | filing years 2022–2023 |
| Income of those who leftGreater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT’s figurefiling years 2022–2023 | $84,514 | 70th percentileof 4,101 | filing years 2022–2023 |
| Median household income ±$1,9782024 ACS 5-Year | $58,685 | Bottom 37%of 29,223 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Per capita income ±$1,6912024 ACS 5-Year | $33,024 | Bottom 47%of 31,420 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Poverty rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year | 20.6% | Bottom 21%of 31,773 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Average commute ±1.0 min2024 ACS 5-Year | 32.1 min | Bottom 25%of 31,543 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Bachelor's degree or higher ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year | 23.4% | Top 43%of 31,919 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Drove alone to work ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year | 61.5% | 14th percentileof 31,433 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| EmploymentJuly 2026 | 72,403 | Top 47%of 4,226 | July 2026 |
| Employment change (3 years)July 2026 | −3.8% | Bottom 8%of 4,226 | July 2026 |
| Employment change (year over year)July 2026 | −4.2% | Bottom 3%of 4,226 | July 2026 |
| Labor forceJuly 2026 | 78,105 | 53rd percentileof 4,226 | July 2026 |
| Labor force participation ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year | 79.5% | Top 46%of 31,513 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Mean annual wageBridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS | $84,700 | Top 17%of 3,729 | 2025 OEWS |
| Median annual wageBridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS | $61,470 | Top 12%of 3,729 | 2025 OEWS |
| Public transit to work ±0.9%2024 ACS 5-Year | 6.8% | 97th percentileof 31,433 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Unemployment change (year over year)July 2026 | +1.6% | Bottom 1%of 4,226 | July 2026 |
| Unemployment rateJuly 2026 | 7.3% | Bottom 3%of 4,226 | July 2026 |
| Worked from home ±1.0%2024 ACS 5-Year | 7.6% | 50th percentileof 31,433 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
Unemployment rate
Median household income, successive ACS releases
Largest occupations — Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT
| Occupation | People employed | Median annual wage |
|---|---|---|
| Retail Salespersons | 12,230 | $37,330 |
| General and Operations Managers | 11,140 | $137,230 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | 10,850 | $38,110 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | 8,660 | $36,550 |
| Registered Nurses | 8,370 | $105,660 |
| Cashiers | 8,210 | $36,420 |
Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.
Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
17% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 31% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.
There are 15.2 students for every full-time teacher across 44 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.
| School | District | Students | Per teacher | Math | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central High School | Bridgeport School District | 1,803 | 18.6 | 15% | 36% |
| Warren Harding High School | Bridgeport School District | 1,324 | 20.1 | 3% | 12% |
| Achievement First Bridgeport Academy · charter | Achievement First Bridgeport Academy District | 1,090 | 23.2 | 51% | 63% |
| Blackham School | Bridgeport School District | 1,088 | 17.5 | 18% | 30% |
| Bassick High School | Bridgeport School District | 1,075 | 17.1 | 3% | 17% |
| Cesar Batalla School | Bridgeport School District | 990 | 15.2 | 4% | 12% |
| Read School | Bridgeport School District | 863 | 18.0 | 13% | 28% |
| Geraldine Johnson School | Bridgeport School District | 825 | 15.6 | 18% | 26% |
| Bullard-Havens Technical High School | Connecticut Technical Education and Career System | 819 | 10.0 | 3% | 27% |
| Capital Preparatory Harbor School · charter | Capital Preparatory Harbor School District | 775 | 21.5 | 23% | 33% |
| Luis Munoz Marin School | Bridgeport School District | 709 | 15.4 | 3% | 11% |
| Great Oaks Charter School · charter | Great Oaks Charter School District | 662 | 17.0 | 13% | 21% |
84.2% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.
Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Connecticut’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.
Housing & affordability
How it’s calculated — housing affordability →Prices for everything a household buys run about 7% above the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 107.0, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT Metro Area is up 53% over five years, and up 5.1% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.
Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $6,496 a year in real estate taxes, about 2.36% of the median home value.
The typical renter household here spends 36% of its income on rent, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,450 a month.
A median home at $274,900 costs 3.2 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $84,742, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.
Prices here run about 7% above the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.
Published for the Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.
The figures above are measured against Bridgeport’s median household income of $58,685, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.
| Metric | Value | Compared nationally | Source period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost of living indexthe Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT Metro Area’s figure2023 | 107.0 | Bottom 30%of 3,700 | 2023 |
| Home price change (1 year)the Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2 | +5.1% | 79th percentileof 4,154 | 2026 Q2 |
| Home price change (5 years)the Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2 | +53.3% | 87th percentileof 4,154 | 2026 Q2 |
| Home price change (10 years)the Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2 | +84.2% | 36th percentileof 4,154 | 2026 Q2 |
| Home price to income ±0.32024 ACS 5-Year | 3.2 | Bottom 29%of 26,815 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Homeownership rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year | 42.8% | 5th percentileof 31,717 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Housing units ±7702024 ACS 5-Year | 59,844 | 99th percentileof 32,177 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Median gross rent ±$352024 ACS 5-Year | $1,450 | Bottom 21%of 23,120 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Median home value ±$9,3652024 ACS 5-Year | $274,900 | 69th percentileof 29,111 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Median property taxes ±$1922024 ACS 5-Year | $6,496 | 95th percentileof 26,440 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Owner household income ±$6,9332024 ACS 5-Year | $84,742 | Top 42%of 27,548 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Property tax rate ±0.11%2024 ACS 5-Year | 2.36% | 97th percentileof 20,543 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Rent as a share of income ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year | 35.7% | Bottom 19%of 22,950 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Seasonal and second homes ±1412024 ACS 5-Year | 216 | 94th percentileof 32,330 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year | 0.4% | 55th percentileof 31,895 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year | 5.1% | 40th percentileof 31,769 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Vacant housing units ±4332024 ACS 5-Year | 3,286 | 99th percentileof 32,330 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures and the cost-of-living index.
Growth & development
How it’s calculated — growth →Development Momentum
An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.
Population has grown 3% since 2020, reaching 151,599 in 2024.
Permitting has turned downward after moving the other way the year before: 215 units authorized in 2025, 56% below the prior year.
73% of the 103 units permitted over the past twelve months are in buildings of five or more homes, so new supply is concentrated in apartments and condominiums rather than detached houses.
Federal tax returns show Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, which contains Bridgeport, lost about 0.4% of its residents through moves within the US in the most recent year, counting those who arrived against those who left. Households that moved in reported an average income of $92,231, above the $84,514 of households that moved out.
At 0.7 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.
Population, annual estimates
People moving in and out
Where newcomers came from
- Western Connecticut Planning Region, CT 3,109 people · 24% of arrivals
- Bronx County, NY 1,341 people · 10% of arrivals
- Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT 1,309 people · 10% of arrivals
- South Central Connecticut Planning Region, CT 1,273 people · 9.8% of arrivals
- Westchester County, NY 736 people · 5.7% of arrivals
Where people who left went
- Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT 2,784 people · 20% of departures
- South Central Connecticut Planning Region, CT 2,248 people · 16% of departures
- Western Connecticut Planning Region, CT 1,830 people · 13% of departures
- New York County, NY 361 people · 2.6% of departures
- Bronx County, NY 353 people · 2.5% of departures
Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.
Housing units permitted per year
Weather & climate
6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 83°F and January a low of 24°F.
Normal annual precipitation is 44.1 inches, including 33.6 inches of snow.
Precipitation
| Metric | Value | Source period |
|---|---|---|
| Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals | 44.1" | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Annual snowfall1991-2020 Normals | 33.6" | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Average January low1991-2020 Normals | 24°F | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Average July high1991-2020 Normals | 83°F | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals | 6 | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals | 44°F | 1991-2020 Normals |
Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. How to read climate and air quality.
Physical risk
The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, hurricane and coastal flooding, with inland flooding alone responsible for 58% of it.
Low or minimal exposure: strong wind, winter weather, ice storm, heat wave, lightning, cold wave, landslide, tornado, wildfire, hail, drought, tsunami, volcanic activity, avalanche.
Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.
Below these are deaths rather than offenses, published for the county. The two measure different things and are not comparable with each other.
Bridgeport's police department reported 250 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, near the middle of places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 1,265.
Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.
Offenses are reported to the FBI by Bridgeport’s own police department and shown only where it reported every month of the year; a partial year is withheld rather than scaled up. Reported crime is what police recorded, which is not the same as what happened. Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around Bridgeport (Greater Bridgeport Planning Region) rather than Bridgeport itself. Neither is part of the Area Score. How to read crime rates and death rates.
What this profile does not cover
Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.
- Death-certificate rates
- The CDC publishes these rates by county, and no county figure could be attached to this page.
- Air quality
- The EPA publishes an air-quality index only where a monitor sits. There is none in this county, and a modeled value would be a different kind of number from the measured ones everywhere else on this page.
- Taxes
- Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
- Anything about a specific address
- Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.
Access
7 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest John F Kennedy Intl at 49 miles.
| Metric | Value | Compared nationally | Source period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broadband access ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year | 87.9% | Bottom 42%of 31,588 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Distance to major airportNASR current cycle | 49 mi | Bottom 13%of 4,226 | NASR current cycle |
| Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle | 7 | Top 13%of 4,226 | NASR current cycle |
| No internet access ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year | 9.1% | Bottom 42%of 31,588 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Airport | Code | Distance | Longest runway |
|---|---|---|---|
| John F Kennedy Intl | JFK | 49 mi | 14,511 ft |
| New York Stewart Intl | SWF | 52 mi | 11,817 ft |
| Bradley Intl | BDL | 58 mi | 9,510 ft |
Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.
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Other cities in Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT
Same metropolitan area, measured the same way| City | County | Population | Area Score | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stamford | Western Connecticut Planning Region | 137,144 | 54 | Stamford vs Bridgeport |
| Norwalk | Western Connecticut Planning Region | 92,187 | 52 | Norwalk vs Bridgeport |
| Danbury | Western Connecticut Planning Region | 87,263 | 49 | Danbury vs Bridgeport |
| Greenwich | Western Connecticut Planning Region | 14,792 | 51 | |
| Bethel | Western Connecticut Planning Region | 11,404 | 54 | |
| Trumbull Center | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 10,264 | 51 |
Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.
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Data & methodology
| Used for | Source | Source period |
|---|---|---|
| Access | Federal Aviation Administration Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service | NASR current cycle |
| Safety | Federal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer Summarized offense counts by law enforcement agency | 2025 calendar year |
| Physical risk | Federal Emergency Management Agency National Risk Index | National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0) |
| Demographics, Income | Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county) | filing years 2022–2023 |
| Climate | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly) | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Housing | U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional price parities and county personal income | 2023 |
| Jobs | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics | 2025 OEWS |
| Jobs | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Local Area Unemployment Statistics | July 2026 |
| Demographics | U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program | July 1, 2024 estimate |
| Development | U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey | 12 months ending July 2026 |
| Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, Jobs | U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File) | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Schools | U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments | 2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year |
| Housing | U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions) | 2026 Q2 |
| Current conditions | NOAA National Weather Service National Weather Service current conditions | Live observation, read when the page opens |
Profile recalculated October 8, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology, or every source with how often each updates.
ZIP codes in Bridgeport
6 ZIP areasEvery ZIP area in Bridgeport with census figures of its own, largest first. The ones linked below diverge enough from the city as a whole to carry a full profile; the rest track Bridgeport closely, so their figures are here rather than on a page that would repeat this one. An Area Score is calculated for published profiles only, which is why it is blank on those rows.