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About the Reports

The DataHaven Town Equity Reports disaggregate data from the 2020 Census, American Community Survey microdata files, DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey record-level files, and federal and state agencies to create relevant town-level information that is not available from any other source. These innovative and user-friendly reports are informing many local- and state-level efforts to improve community well-being.

DataHaven has published reports for each of the 169 towns in Connecticut. Additionally, DataHaven has created reports for state agency service areas, counties, Councils of Governments (Census County Equivalent Entities), and many other areas, based on groupings of towns. Graphics from each individual report are available on request. Please contact DataHaven with suggestions for the next edition.

Reports for geographic regions

Reports for many larger geographic areas based on groupings of towns, such as DMHAS Regions, Councils of Governments (COG) service areas, hospital service areas, or custom-defined areas, may be found on the reports section of our website, or by request. These reports are designed to correspond with the town-level reports. Please contact us to learn more.

Data User Guides

A more thorough narrative discussion of the issues covered in the Town Equity Reports may be found in our Community Index reports and our statewide health equity report. Sources used are cited in the appendix of each report. Indicators in the 2025 report include population change, demographics (age, race/ethnicity, immigration, language spoken and linguistic isolation), homeownership and tenure (owners and renters), income, housing cost burden, poverty, SNAP (food stamps), vehicle ownership, student test scores and graduation rate, school discipline (suspensions), adult education level attainment, K-12 student enrollment demographics, assisted housing units, overcrowding, jobs and wages, unemployment, median household income, home broadband internet, health insurance coverage, dental visits, preventive care, exercise, food insecurity, self-rated health, smoking, diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), asthma, anxiety, depression, drug overdose, fentanyl, HIV, PrEP usage, birth outcomes (prenatal care, low birthweight, infant mortality), lead poisoning, satisfaction with area, trust in neighbors, child-friendliness, public safety, safety walking at night, government responsiveness, voting and civic engagement, environmental indicators (including hazardous waste), walking and biking, tree canopy cover and impervious surfaces. 

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Acknowledgements

For 2025 reports (version 3.0): The 2025 Connecticut Town Equity Reports build on work originally supported in 2020 by generous grants from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation (tremainefoundation.org). Its current publication was made possible through support from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, The Connecticut Project, and individual donors. The report also benefited from in-kind contributions and guidance from local organizations and residents across Connecticut. One of the principal data sources used in this report, the DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey (DCWS), is sustained by more than 80 public and private funders across Connecticut. Lead sponsors of the 2024 and 2025 DCWS included Connecticut Children’s, Connecticut Community Foundation, Connecticut Health Foundation, Fairfield County’s Community Foundation, Hartford Department of Health and Human Services, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Hartford HealthCare, Health Improvement Alliance (Greater Bridgeport), Naugatuck Valley Health District, New Haven Health Department, Nuvance Health, Stamford Health, Stamford Department of Health and Human Services, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, The Connecticut Project, Trinity Health of New England, United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut, United Way of Connecticut, United Way of Greater New Haven, University of Hartford, Yale Cancer Center, Yale-New Haven Health, and Yale University. The report also relies on statistical information produced by many state and federal agencies. We are grateful for their ongoing commitment to transparent, reliable public data that informs community work across Connecticut.

Acknowledgements for versions 1.0 and 2.0 of the reports may be found within the report files themselves. Version 1.0 was released in 2021. Version 2.0 was released in 2023. Typically these older editions can be found by searching our website or visiting the town Community Profile pages.

Suggested Citations

For 2025 reports: Seaberry, C., Davila, K., Abraham, M. (2025). [Town] Equity Report. New Haven, CT: DataHaven. Published December 2025. More information at ctdatahaven.org.

Report document notes, clarifications, and errata

1. In the education section of version 1.0 of the reports (2021 versions), suspension rates are described as suspensions per 1,000 students. To clarify, this indicator is actually based on the number of students suspended at least once per 1,000 students. If a student has more than one suspension in a year, they only count towards this rate once.
2. In the education section of a draft of version 2.0 of the reports (2023 draft versions), the document endnote for the SBAC ELA pass rate in Figure 8 did not fully describe the source used, and the methodology for creating estimates for the ELA pass rate for small groups needed to be modified to improve precision. We addressed both of these issues in the final versions of version 2.0 of the reports, posted on the website.

PDF of town equity report version 3.0 for the town of Hartford, Connecticut, featuring 2020 Census and other data on social and economic well-being, equity, and quality of life. Created by DataHaven in December 2025.

PDF of North Hartford Health Report: Data to Action (June 2025). See the main report page for more information.

2025 CHNA Greater Hartford Community Focus Groups Summary Report. See the main report page for more information.

This report supports advocacy for health equity in North Hartford. It begins with a demographic overview, followed by findings aligned with the CATF’s four pillars: expanding access to healthy food options via the establishment of a full-service grocery store, supporting locally owned small business growth, attracting healthpromoting services, and increasing the number of owner-occupied and rental housing options. Grounded in community input and informed by data on health disparities in North Hartford, the CATF’s four pillars reflect the interconnected drivers of health equity in the region.

The town-level and neighborhood-level data referenced in the printed report appendix may be found on our Connecticut Town Data Viewer or Connecticut City Neighborhood Profiles viewer, or by request.

The North Hartford Triple Aim Collaborative (NHTAC) Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) Workgroup convenes representatives from Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, DataHaven, Hartford HealthCare, Trinity Health of New England, and the United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut to support health assessment and planning activities in Greater Hartford. In 2025, staff from the United Way along with representatives from the CHNA Workgroup and the broader NHTAC coalition identified a diverse group of community partners and supported them in organizing a series of community focus groups across Greater Hartford.

From March 21 through April 30, 2025, these community partners hosted ten focus groups. The focus groups were oriented almost entirely to adult residents of the Greater Hartford area, with an emphasis on residents living within the City of Hartford. A few groups included a staff member and/or volunteer from the participating community organizations to provide context or support. In total, approximately 90 adults participated in these focus groups, representing a diverse cross-section of residents in terms of age, sex, race/ethnicity, town of residence, language, lived experiences, and health conditions.

For each focus group, a staff person from DataHaven introduced themselves and facilitated and moderated the discussion. A second staff person from DataHaven recorded detailed notes for each focus group, including some direct quotes and notes on nonverbal or contextual details such as emotional intensity and group agreement. Spanish interpreters were provided by DataHaven or community partners where necessary. Nine focus groups were conducted in person and on-site at the community partner’s primary location, while one focus group was conducted virtually. Community organizations and participants were offered honoraria to recognize their time and effort. Each session typically lasted 90 minutes. For each focus group, residents and stakeholders shared information on needs related to community health, with prompts including findings from the previous CHNA (2022) conducted in Greater Hartford as well as more current results from the 2024 DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey. Focus group participants were asked to reflect on what they felt were the most pressing issues in their communities, to identify what community assets were in place to address those needs, and to share their vision for a healthier community for adults and children living in the Greater Hartford area.

Once all focus groups were completed, DataHaven used a multi-phase approach for thematic analysis of the notes. Qualitative data analysis began with initial coding, which generated several dozen open codes that were used to tag nearly 1,000 individual comments, ideas, personal or community concerns, and views on local assets. Next, DataHaven staff used an iterative approach to cluster related tags into a comprehensive codebook of sub-themes, to enable more consistency in the analysis. Finally, DataHaven used thematic clustering of the sub-themes to develop topline findings organized around 13 summary-level topics that appeared across all of the focus groups. Presented below, DataHaven’s topline findings and descriptive findings by topic account for the frequency of mentions of each sub-theme as well as the contextual factors noted above.