The 10 Richest Cities In Connecticut For 2024


The richest cities in Connecticut are Old Greenwich and Riverside for 2024 based on Saturday Night Science.

Want to know where Connecticut’s 17 billionaires and 122,000 millionaires live? Look here.

That’s right, the Gold Coast didn’t get its name because prospectors found gold on Connecticut’s beaches. It’s because there are a bunch of well-to-do people who call this New England state home. There’s a reason The Nutmeg State is one of the richest in the country.

The richest places in Connecticut are a lot like expensive diamonds. Everyone with means tries to get their hands on one. The competition for the top ten richest places in The Constitution State was quite fierce, so to narrow down our list, we looked at the 76 Connecticut cities with at least 3,000 residents. We measured home prices from Zillow and incomes from the Census for each city.

If you want to live in one of Connecticut’s wealthiest places, you’ll need to make upwards of $122,546/year.


Table Of Contents: Top Ten | Methodology | Summary | Table


The 10 Richest Places In Connecticut For 2024

  1. Old Greenwich
  2. Riverside
  3. Glenville
  4. Cos Cob
  5. Greenwich
  6. Ridgefield
  7. Orange
  8. Pemberwick
  9. Mystic
  10. Durham

Richest Cities In Connecticut Map

With fancy city names like Windsor and Danbury, Connecticut seems to ooze wealth around every corner.

What is the wealthiest place in Connecticut? According to the latest Census data, the richest place in The Nutmeg State is Old Greenwich.

To see the other wealthy places that made this list, look below. And if you have some time on your hands, take a look at how the other 99% live in Connecticut’s poorest places.

Rich people not your cup of tea? Feel free to check out some more reading about Connecticut:

The 10 Richest Cities In Connecticut For 2024

1. Old Greenwich

Old Greenwich, CT

Source: Public domain
Overall SnackAbility

7
/10

Population: 7,060
Median Income: $240,417
Median Home Values: $1,924,063
More on Old Greenwich: Data | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

2. Riverside

Riverside, CT

Source: Public domain
Overall SnackAbility

7
/10

Population: 9,093
Median Income: $250,001
Median Home Values: $1,918,050
More on Riverside: Data | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

3. Glenville

Overall SnackAbility

7.5
/10

Population: 3,112
Median Income: $197,619
Median Home Values: $1,163,162
More on Glenville: Real Estate

4. Cos Cob

Cos Cob, CT

Source: Public domain
Overall SnackAbility

7
/10

Population: 7,243
Median Income: $185,125
Median Home Values: $1,342,010
More on Cos Cob: Data | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

5. Greenwich

Greenwich, CT

Source: Wikipedia User Paul Sableman | CC BY 2.0
Overall SnackAbility

7.5
/10

Population: 14,051
Median Income: $128,839
Median Home Values: $1,939,194
More on Greenwich: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

6. Ridgefield

Ridgefield, CT

Source: Wikipedia User Doug Kerr | CC BY-SA 2.0
Overall SnackAbility

6
/10

Population: 7,655
Median Income: $139,490
Median Home Values: $850,190
More on Ridgefield: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

7. Orange

Orange, CT

Source: Wikipedia User Andrew Bossi | CC BY-SA 2.5
Overall SnackAbility

7
/10

Population: 14,231
Median Income: $138,514
Median Home Values: $554,284
More on Orange: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

8. Pemberwick

Overall SnackAbility

7
/10

Population: 3,212
Median Income: $122,546
Median Home Values: $966,393
More on Pemberwick: Real Estate

9. Mystic

Overall SnackAbility

7.5
/10

Population: 4,417
Median Income: $126,854
Median Home Values: $542,439
More on Mystic: Real Estate

10. Durham

Overall SnackAbility

6
/10

Population: 3,469
Median Income: $127,361
Median Home Values: $438,821
More on Durham: Real Estate

Methodology: How We Determined The Richest Places In Connecticut For 2024

Map Of The Richest Places To Live In Connecticut
The first thing that comes to most people’s minds when they think about determining the richest places is simply identifying personal incomes. After all, rich people have really high salaries.

However, we don’t believe that one statistic wholly encompasses what it means to be one of the “richest places.” So we looked at this set of criteria from the newly released 2018-2022 American Community Survey and applied Saturday Night Science:

  • Median Home Values
  • Median Household Income

Median household income is the most digestible way to understand how rich a place is. And home values are a measure of wealth. The two combine to define a “Rich City.”

After we collected the data for all 76 places with more than 3,000 people in Connecticut, we ranked each place from 1 to 76 for each of the criteria, with 1 being the richest.

We then averaged all the rankings for a place into a “Rich Score,” with the place having the lowest overall Rich Score, Old Greenwich, crowned the “Richest City In Connecticut For 2024.”

The data has been updated for 2024. This is our tenth time ranking the wealthiest cities in Connecticut.

You can skip to the end to see the rankings for all 76 places.

Summary: The Wealthiest Places In Connecticut For 2024

Like we said earlier, when we set out to identify the richest places in Connecticut, we weren’t sure what we’d encounter, but it ended up being some of the best places to live in Connecticut.

The richest cities in Connecticut are Old Greenwich, Riverside, Glenville, Cos Cob, Greenwich, Ridgefield, Orange, Pemberwick, Mystic, and Durham.

When you look at the data, the cities and places mentioned above meet the criteria for being at the very top of the income ladder for everyone that lives there.

If you’re curious enough, here are the poorest cities in Connecticut, according to data:

Poorest: Hartford
2nd Poorest: Heritage Village
3rd Poorest: Willimantic

For more Connecticut reading, check out:

Detailed List Of The Richest Cities In Connecticut

Rank City RichScore Median Income Average Home Price
1 Old Greenwich 2.0 $240,417 $1,924,063
2 Riverside 2.0 $250,001 $1,918,050
3 Glenville 4.0 $197,619 $1,163,162
4 Cos Cob 4.0 $185,125 $1,342,010
5 Greenwich 4.0 $128,839 $1,939,194
6 Ridgefield 6.5 $139,490 $850,190
7 Orange 8.5 $138,514 $554,284
8 Pemberwick 9.0 $122,546 $966,393
9 Mystic 10.5 $126,854 $542,439
10 Durham 12.5 $127,361 $438,821
11 Shelton 14.5 $112,366 $484,367
12 West Hartford 16.0 $124,150 $423,572
13 Stamford 16.0 $100,718 $611,989
14 Cheshire Village 16.0 $107,577 $448,004
15 Milford 18.0 $104,503 $444,403
16 Simsbury Center 18.0 $120,435 $412,636
17 Norwalk 18.5 $97,879 $560,154
18 North Haven 18.5 $121,250 $405,967
19 Byram 19.0 $92,500 $1,006,242
20 Glastonbury Center 20.0 $104,557 $425,486
21 Collinsville 20.5 $101,336 $433,150
22 Old Mystic 24.0 $112,734 $356,635
23 Lake Pocotopaug 25.5 $105,750 $357,578
24 Wethersfield 26.0 $108,656 $353,993
25 Bethel 27.5 $79,500 $491,015
26 Northwest Harwinton 28.0 $93,521 $388,585
27 Niantic 28.0 $82,398 $436,222
28 Danbury 30.5 $79,983 $431,374
29 Kensington 31.5 $99,423 $341,309
30 Portland 31.5 $94,923 $354,774
31 Clinton 33.0 $80,083 $399,517
32 Newington 33.5 $100,239 $311,580
33 Broad Brook 34.0 $93,243 $344,495
34 Colchester 37.0 $74,035 $378,824
35 New Milford 37.0 $70,625 $412,440
36 Wallingford Center 38.0 $83,618 $331,641
37 Waterford 38.5 $74,701 $361,777
38 Southwood Acres 39.0 $101,939 $276,937
39 Pawcatuck 39.5 $70,927 $371,844
40 Oakville 40.5 $82,701 $308,651
41 East Haven 40.5 $83,489 $305,502
42 Naugatuck 41.0 $91,145 $295,263
43 Branford Center 41.5 $76,500 $332,820
44 Sherwood Manor 42.0 $98,980 $271,396
45 Windsor Locks 44.0 $85,570 $281,620
46 Groton 44.0 $64,611 $374,397
47 Middletown 45.5 $75,120 $302,920
48 Bristol 46.0 $82,094 $286,446
49 Hazardville 46.0 $93,486 $261,847
50 Watertown 47.5 $67,252 $336,719
51 West Haven 48.0 $72,827 $302,368
52 Ansonia 48.5 $67,474 $318,783
53 Manchester 51.0 $73,265 $279,308
54 Derby 51.0 $69,835 $294,531
55 Stafford Springs 53.0 $68,929 $294,009
56 Storrs 53.5 $27,793 $367,128
57 Danielson 56.0 $69,007 $269,981
58 Bridgeport 56.5 $54,440 $305,486
59 Putnam 57.0 $60,539 $294,924
60 Terryville 59.5 $69,444 $251,236
61 Moosup 60.5 $64,466 $262,318
62 Meriden 61.0 $63,671 $266,816
63 New Haven 62.0 $54,305 $279,194
64 Torrington 62.5 $66,616 $247,430
65 East Hartford 63.0 $64,244 $258,022
66 Winsted 64.0 $66,250 $238,921
67 New London 64.5 $56,237 $260,757
68 Thompsonville 64.5 $57,662 $258,192
69 Norwich 66.0 $62,713 $243,007
70 New Britain 67.5 $53,766 $251,760
71 Waterbury 71.0 $51,451 $232,478
72 Rockville 72.5 $49,823 $215,396
73 Jewett City 72.5 $52,283 $206,907
74 Willimantic 73.0 $45,723 $225,900
75 Heritage Village 73.5 $46,663 $213,745
76 Hartford 75.5 $41,841 $171,873
About Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar has been in the real estate business for almost ten years now. He originally worked for Movoto Real Estate as the director of marketing before founding HomeSnacks.

He believes the key to finding the right place to live comes down to looking at the data, reading about things to do, and, most importantly, checking it out yourself before you move.

If you've been looking for a place to live in the past several years, you've probably stumbled upon his writing already.

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