This is a CSV (raw data) file with the state, county, and town-level data used in our community profile pages, updated with 2019 5-year ACS data (released by Census Bureau in December 2020). For Connecticut counties and select Connecticut towns, the dataset also contains a small number of estimates from the 2018 DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey. Please refer to the survey page for full crosstabs and results.

The CSV may be downloaded using the "Document" link below.

Document:
5year2019town_profile_expanded_CWS_0.csv

by intern@ctdatahaven.org Jan. 26, 2021 Comments

You are invited to join the Advisory Council for our 2021 statewide survey!

The DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey completed live, in-depth interviews with 34,000 randomly-selected adults in every town in Connecticut in 2015, 2018, and 2020, producing robust local-level data on the issues most relevant to community well-being that are not available from any other public data source. This survey will be fielded again in 2021, with support from public and private partners throughout Connecticut. 

by intern@ctdatahaven.org Jan. 24, 2021 Comments

Three resident-driven documentary films focusing on Hartford, New Haven, and the Lower Naugatuck Valley area of Connecticut were produced by Purple States and DataHaven, and released in January 2021. The films reveal stark differences in life expectancy between neighborhoods and highlight issues such as the opioid crisis, access to healthy food, and heart disease.

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/mini-documentary_shows_the_face_of_hunger_in_new_haven/ Jan. 19, 2021 Comments

An article in the New Haven Independent discusses DataHaven's new mini-documentary on heart disease and lack of access to healthy foods in New Haven.

Read the article here.

Authored By

DataHaven and Purple States

Date

January 01, 2021

Partners

North Hartford Triple Aim Collaborative, United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut, New Haven Health Department, Valley Community Foundation, Naugatuck Valley Health District, and other local partners, including community residents

Videos and Films

Local Data Analysis

About the Project

This report was released in December 2020. From the Introduction / About the Report page (page 4):

The Connecticut Department of Housing, together with Regional Plan Association and partners across the state, have worked together to create this guidebook to help municipalities develop their local affordable housing plans, as required by state statute § 8-30j.

While § 8-30j requires all towns to create an affordable housing plan by spring 2022, it doesn’t specify what should be included, leaving many local communities with questions, like:

Document:
AHPP-Guidebook_RPA_120120.pdf

Connecticut Health Investigative Team Nov. 8, 2020 Comments

[Excerpt from feature article by Theresa Sullivan Barger, Connecticut Health Investigative Team, appearing in the CT Mirror and elsewhere]:

"The nation’s food bank system, created to provide emergency food assistance, fills a chronic need. Still, it may be perpetuating obesity among those facing hunger, concludes a new report by the University of Connecticut’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.

The jump in demand for food caused by the pandemic’s economic fallout amplifies the challenges facing those who serve the hungry.

Link:
http://c-hit.org/2020/11/02/is-food-bank-system-contributing-to-health-disparities/

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