DataHaven resources

Some of our most popular resources for data related to safety include:

1. DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey – a large statewide survey that contains questions on perceptions of neighborhood safety, and experiences of victimization (property and violent crime).

2. Greater New Haven Community Index, Greater Hartford Community Wellbeing Index, Fairfield County Community Wellbeing Index – and other data reports on the Reports page of the DataHaven website.

3. DataHaven Community and Neighborhood Profiles – by area, town and neighborhood. We are currently updating this resource; please contact us if you can’t find the profile you need.

4. DataHaven Connecticut Town Equity Reports – more detailed reports and maps for all 169 towns in Connecticut, focusing on local differences in equity and well-being.

View additional data sources on Connecticut public safety, including maps and links to external sources, on our Data Resources page. Or contact us to suggest other sources we should feature.

This page facilitates access to data crosstabs from the DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey (DCWS). This large survey program has completed over 50,000 live, in-depth interviews with randomly-selected adults in every Connecticut town in 2015, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, and 2025, so results are available for all area regions, towns, and neighborhoods. 

As described in the crosstab methodology page, to ensure representativeness, all survey estimates that we create are weighted by age, race, gender, and geography in proportion to U.S. Census Bureau data from each region or town. 

Below, you may browse an list of regions and individual towns/cities for which we have created a printed crosstab. Data are available for many other towns and regions as well. You will find a summary of survey data for many towns in our Town Equity Reports, available for all 169 towns in Connecticut, and in some of the interactive tools on our Data Dashboard.

Please contact us with questions regarding data access; much more granular estimates for specific areas or specific demographic groups are often available on request.

Selected Large Regions

*See links on the main survey page for all data. Data are also frequently provided on request, so please contact us for assistance.

Selected Large Towns / Cities

DataHaven Resources

Some of our most popular resources for health and environmental data include:

1. DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey – surveys of over 35,000 randomly-selected adults throughout CT; questions related to public health, social determinants of health, and health care access provide local-level data about Connecticut communities that are not available from any other source.

2. Greater New Haven Community Index, Greater Hartford Community Wellbeing Index, Fairfield County Community Wellbeing Index – and other data reports that DataHaven has published in recent years. These can be found in the Reports section of the DataHaven website, and several of them also serve as Community Health Needs Assessments for hospitals located throughout Connecticut.

3. DataHaven Community and Neighborhood Profiles – by area, town and neighborhood. Please contact us if you can’t find the profile you need.

4. DataHaven Connecticut Town Equity Reports – more detailed reports and maps for all 169 towns in Connecticut, focusing on local differences in equity and well-being.

COVID-19 data in Connecticut

1. Our trusted sources of COVID-19 information page provides an overview.

Some of our favorite outside sources of health and environmental data

1. Datasets available from CMS and other Federal agencies. Charles Ornstein at ProPublica maintains a guide, a copy of which (as of December 2016) is posted here: http://ctdatahaven.org/data-resources/new-ecosystem-health-data-keeps-getting-bigger-tipsheet-public-health-datasets

2. County Health Rankings: http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/ The County Health Rankings are a key component of the Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH) project. MATCH is a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. The web site provides access to the 50 state reports, ranking each county within the 50 states according to its health outcomes and the multiple health factors that determine a county’s health. Each county receives a summary rank for its health outcomes and health factors and also for the four different types of health factors: health behaviors, clinical care, social and economic factors, and the physical environment. Each county can also drill down to see specific county-level data (as well as state benchmarks) for the measures upon which the rankings are based.
3. CT Department of Public Health: Vital Statistics Reports https://portal.ct.gov/dph/health-information-systems–reporting/hisrhome…. The Office of Vital Records at the Connecticut Department of Public Health maintains a statewide registry of births, marriages, civil unions, deaths and fetal deaths which have occurred in CT or to CT residents. Vital Records databases are analyzed annually to create statistical reports, known as Registration Reports, for births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, and divorces.
4. Gallup National Health and Well-Being Index https://news.gallup.com/topic/well_being_index.aspx. Explore results by U.S. metropolitan area for overall wellbeing by five elements: career, social, financial, community, and physical based on 2017, 2018 Gallup National Health and Well-Being Index data.
5. National Vital Statistics Reports (National Center for Health Statistics, CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/nvsr.htm. Tables of vital statistics by state and population groups, including preliminary data on births.
6. Report: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Low Birthweight for Connecticut (CTDPH Health Disparities Workgroup, 2008)  Report on the infant health disparity between minority groups and non-Hispanic Whites. Recommends improved services plus development of measures for addressing psychosocial factors in women’s lives.
7. CT Department of Public Health: Connecticut Health Disparities Report (2009). Detailed data compendium that describes health disparities within the State.
8. Kids Count, at http://datacenter.kidscount.org/, is a data tool of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. It maintains an extensive list of indicators related to demographic, economic, education, health, and community well-being of children. Users can also download publications on various topics related to childhood.

9. Connecticut Voices for Children publishes many reports on early childcare, education, and child health and wellbeing, at http://www.ctvoices.org. Use the filters to browse reports by issue area, contributor, or publication date.

10. Data dot Census dot gov, at https://data.census.gov/ is an online portal to selected U.S. Census Bureau data sets, including those on school enrollment by age, educational attainment, private school enrollment, and other education topics. Please contact DataHaven if you have trouble finding what you need on this expansive site.

11. State of Connecticut Open Data: https://data.ct.gov/, has hosted data on topics related to health and human services, like drug related deaths, medical marijuana registry, and SNAP retailers. These may change over time.

12. CDC’s BRFSS (Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System) Prevalence and Trends Tool https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/brfssprevalence/. Access state-level data on behavioral risk factors, including alcohol consumption, health-care access, women’s health. Reports for Connecticut can be accessed at https://portal.ct.gov/dph/Health-Information-Systems–Reporting/Hisrhome/Connecticut-Behavioral-Risk-Factor-Surveillance-System-CT-BRFSS.

13. CDC’s Oral Health Data website contains data from Water Fluoridation Reporting System Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), State Oral Health Surveys, Indian Health Service (IHS) Oral Health Surveys and ASTDD’s Annual Synopsis of State Oral Health Programs. https://www.cdc.gov/oralhealthdata/index.html.

14. Connecticut Department of Public Health’s Statistics and Research page https://portal.ct.gov/DPH/Communications/Services–Programs/Statistics-and-Research contains data on chronic disease, environmental health, health care equity, health information systems, infectious diseases, maternal & child health, and tumor registry.

15. U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project – USALEEP. “The USALEEP project produced estimates of life expectancy at birth—the average number of years a person can expect to live—for most of the census tracts in the United States for the period 2010-2015.” Download data files at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/usaleep/usaleep.html. Analyses also contained within the 2019 DataHaven Community Index reports.

16. 500 Cities data (now known as CDC PLACES). “The 500 Cities project is a collaboration between CDC, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the CDC Foundation. The purpose of the 500 Cities Project is to provide city- and census tract-level small area estimates for chronic disease risk factors, health outcomes, and clinical preventive service use for the largest 500 cities in the United States. These small area estimates will allow cities and local health departments to better understand the burden and geographic distribution of health-related variables in their jurisdictions, and assist them in planning public health interventions.” https://www.cdc.gov/places/index.html. Analysis also available through a DataHaven report.

17. Environmental Protection Agency EnviroAtlas. “EnviroAtlas has 300+ national data layers that cover the contiguous US and an additional 100 community layers for 30 featured community areas. National data layers are frequently based on 30-meter resolution data, while community scale data are derived from 1-meter resolution land cover data for local planning and decision-making.” Currently, within Connecticut, local data are available for the New Haven region. See https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2018-05/documents/newhavenct.pdf for a factsheet. An interactive map is also available at https://enviroatlas.epa.gov/enviroatlas/interactivemap/.

18. Connecticut Environmental Justice Mapping Tool (2023, Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation): “The CT EJ Mapping Tool is an environmental justice mapping and screening tool that utilizes GIS data and information to create a wide and consistent dataset that combines environmental, health, socioeconomic and demographic indicators through our maps and reports. This information and the map can provide detailed information on the daily issues and problems that communities face and can lead policymakers and community leaders to address these issues better.” https://connecticut.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=5adac07c27db40bbabc193af58634e5a

19. CJEST – Climate and Environmental Justice Screening Tool (2022, U.S. Council on Environmental Quality) “The tool has an interactive map and uses datasets that are indicators of burdens in eight categories: climate change, energy, health, housing, legacy pollution, transportation, water and wastewater, and workforce development. The tool uses this information to identify communities that are experiencing these burdens.” https://screeningtool.geoplatform.gov/en/ 

View additional data sources, including maps and links to external sources, on our Data Resources page. Or contact us to suggest other sources we should feature.

In addition to providing direct assistance to hundreds of non-profit organizations and agencies each year, DataHaven staff have worked with area schools, universities, employers, non-profit associations, philanthropic funders, and government agencies to provide training on the use of data in Connecticut for over 30 years.  

Topics often covered in our Connecticut Data Workshops include:

• The importance of neighborhood-level and community-level data
• Accessing neighborhood-level, town-level, and community-level information through DataHaven
• Key trends in your community: Results from the statewide DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey
• Visualizing data
• Designing surveys and focus groups
• Gathering and using data from federal agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau, and from Connecticut state agencies, such as the Department of Public Health, Connecticut Department of Labor, and State Department of Education
• Using data to write grants

Please visit our technical assistance page for more information about our technical assistance services, or to contact DataHaven regarding the Connecticut Data Workshop program. An example of an agenda may be found below.

DataHaven Resources

Some of our most popular resources for civic engagement data include:

1. DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey – numerous survey questions related to civic engagement, social cohesion, and community resources produce local-level data about Connecticut that is not available from any other source.

2. 2016 Connecticut Civic Health Index – a report on statewide measures of community engagement and civic participation, authored by DataHaven.

3. Greater New Haven Community Index , Greater Hartford Community Wellbeing Index, Fairfield County Community Wellbeing Index – and other data reports in the Reports section of the DataHaven website.

4. DataHaven Connecticut Town Equity Reports – more detailed reports and maps for all 169 towns in Connecticut, focusing on local differences in equity and well-being.

    

Some of our favorite outside sources of civic data

1. Connecticut’s Secretary of the State website publishes election and voting statistics online. Access voter registration and election turnout data by town for all elections since 2000.

2. Data on local, statewide, and national nonprofit organizations at the National Center for Charitable Statistics: http://nccs.urban.org/, which has a variety of current databases and tools including report builders that allow users to download data by geographic area within Connecticut.

3. 2011 Connecticut Civic Health Index – a report on statewide measures of community engagement and civic participation.

4. The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan polling and research institute that researches public opinion of issues facing the nation. Data are only available at a national level.

5. “The state of CT’s cities and towns in charts,” at https://ctmirror.org/2017/08/14/the-state-of-cts-cities-and-towns-in-charts/ features tables on charts on municipal revenue, education spending, debt statistics and other data relevant for civic engagement.

6. Making Places / Connecticut Mills, at https://connecticutmills.org/, is an exceptionally detailed inventory of mills in all Connecticut towns. Click on the map to view mills, machine workshops, and other industrial sites that were and still are critical to the development of nearly every Connecticut town.

View additional data sources on childhood and education, including maps and links to external sources, on our Data Resources page. Or contact us to suggest other sources we should feature.

DataHaven Resources

Some of our most popular resources for childhood and education data include:

1. DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey – survey of randomly-selected adults throughout CT; questions related to community resources for children provide local-level data about Connecticut communities that are not available from any other source.

2. Greater New Haven Community Index, Greater Hartford Community Wellbeing Index, Fairfield County Community Wellbeing Index – and other data reports in the Reports section of the DataHaven website.

3. DataHaven Community and Neighborhood Profiles – by area, town and neighborhood. We are currently updating this resource; please contact us if you can’t find the profile you need.

4. DataHaven Connecticut Town Equity Reports – more detailed reports and maps for all 169 towns in Connecticut, focusing on local differences in equity and well-being.

Some of our favorite outside sources of childhood and education data

1. EdSight, at http://edsight.ct.gov/SASPortal/main.do, is the data portal of the Connecticut State Department of Education. The most recent  measures of public school and student performance are displayed by category on the main page. Additional data, some with more detail, can also be found on the Portals & Publications pages. To access college enrollment/graduation data, go to EdSight, click “Performance,” select “Graduation Rates” or “College/Postsecondary. These are some of the pages we find most useful, but the portal has additional resources that you can explore. For Profile and Performance Reports, previously known as “Strategic School Profiles,” go to EdSight, click “Overview,” select “Profile and Performance Reports,” select a district and select “All Schools” to obtain PDF reports for individual schools across a district.

2. CT.gov eLicensing, at https://www.elicense.ct.gov/, is an online database of all licenses held by individuals or businesses in Connecticut. Users can generate a roster for all registered family home child care providers, by town. To do so, click “Generate Roster(s)” from left sidebar -> “Child Day Care Licensing Program” -> “Family Day Care Homes Total by Date (Active) (No Fee Required).” Licensing data are also available for many other categories of businesses or occupations.

3. Kids Count, at http://datacenter.kidscount.org/, is a data tool of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. It maintains an extensive list of indicators related to demographic, economic, education, health, and community well-being of children. Users can also download publications on various topics related to childhood.

4. Connecticut Voices for Children publishes many reports on early childcare, education, and child wellbeing, at http://www.ctvoices.org/publications. Use the filters to browse reports by issue area, contributor, or publication date.

5. “Troubled Schools on Trial,” at https://ctmirror.org/2016/12/07/troubled-schools-on-trial-when-poverty-p…, is an extensive and in-depth 7-part series by Connecticut Mirror that looks at various issues facing the funding of public education in Connecticut. The series features charts and data tables.

6. New Haven Promise’s Summit 2019 report contains data on New Haven public school enrollment trends, investment impact, and detailed graduation rates.

7. The Opportunity Atlas is an interactive portal that uses data following 20 million Americans from childhood to their mid-30s. It displays a wide array of outcomes relevant for the childhood roots of social mobility.

8. Adult Literacy – US PIAAC Skills MapThe National Center for Education Statistics surveyed 12,330 U.S. adults ages 16 to 74 living in non-institutionalized dwelling units from 2012 to 2017 for the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), an international study involving over 35 countries. Using small area estimation models, model-based estimates of literacy and numeracy proficiency have been produced for all U.S. states and counties, and for age and education groups at the state and county levels. By using PIAAC survey data in conjunction with data from the American Community Survey, the Skills Map provides reliable estimates of adult literacy and numeracy skills in all 50 states, all 3,141 counties, and the District of Columbia.  The PIAAC State and County Indicators of Adult Literacy and Numeracy data focus on the literacy and numeracy proficiency of adults ages 16–74 in all 50 states, all 3,141 counties, and the District of Columbia, with state and county estimates at https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/state-county-estimates.asp

View additional data sources on childhood and education, including maps and links to external sources, on our Data Resources page. Or contact us to suggest other sources we should feature.

DataHaven resources

Some of our most popular resources for economic data include:

1. DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey – numerous survey questions related to workforce development, employment, financial stress, and banking included in our survey of randomly-selected adults in Connecticut, produce local-level data about Connecticut that are not available from any other source.
2. Greater New Haven Community Index, Greater Hartford Community Wellbeing Index, Fairfield County Community Wellbeing Index – and other data reports on the Reports page of the DataHaven website.
3. DataHaven Community and Neighborhood Profiles – by area, town and neighborhood. We are currently updating this resource; please contact us if you can’t find the profile you need.
4. DataHaven Connecticut Town Equity Reports – more detailed reports and maps for all 169 towns in Connecticut, focusing on local differences in equity and well-being.

Some of our favorite outside sources of economic data

View additional data sources on the Connecticut economy, including maps and links to external sources, on our Data Resources page. Or contact us to suggest other sources we should feature.

DataHaven resources

Some of our most popular resources for demographic data include:

1. DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey

2. Greater New Haven Community Index, Greater Hartford Community Wellbeing Index, Fairfield County Community Wellbeing Index – and other data reports in the Reports page of the DataHaven website.

3. DataHaven Community and Neighborhood Profiles – by area, town and neighborhood. We are currently updating this resource; please contact us if you can’t find the profile you need.

4. 2020 Census Data results and changes since the 2010 Census

5. DataHaven Connecticut Town Equity Reports – more detailed reports and maps for all 169 towns in Connecticut, focusing on local differences in equity and well-being.

View additional data sources on Connecticut demographics, including maps and links to external sources, on our Data Resources page. Or contact us to suggest other sources we should feature.