The Valley Community Index is a triennial profile of life in the Lower Naugatuck Region of Connecticut (defined as the towns of Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Derby, Naugatuck, Oxford, Seymour, and Shelton).

The 2025 Valley Community Index was developed through a collaboration of community partners and stakeholders. Drawing from local data, research, and the voices of community members and professionals, the Index offers key insights into the social, economic, and health factors that impact Valley residents. Nonprofits, towns, cities, and other organizations use the 2025 Valley Community Index to guide strategic planning, develop programs, secure funding, and advocate for the resources that help our communities thrive.

Prior editions of the Valley Community Index from 2016, 2019, and 2022 are also available on the DataHaven website.

The goal of the report, first published in 2018, is to promote a better understanding of the critical community well-being needs and opportunities in the Greater Waterbury region and to highlight some promising practices that are underway to improve community health. Socioeconomic factors, physical environment, clinical care, and health behaviors are all key pieces of well-being. Towns in the region include Beacon Falls, Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Cheshire, Goshen, Litchfield, Middlebury, Morris, Naugatuck, New Milford, Oxford, Prospect, Roxbury, Southbury, Thomaston, Warren, Washington, Waterbury, Watertown, Wolcott, and Woodbury. The report uses data from the DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey as well as other federal, state, and local data sources analyzed by DataHaven.

In 2020, the Greater Waterbury Health Partnership released an updated version of the profile, with support from DataHaven, which is posted here.

In 2022, the Greater Waterbury Health Partnership released its 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment, with support from DataHaven. CHNAs have been published by area hospitals, with support from DataHaven, in subsequent years.