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How Connecticut compares

Ranked 9th of 51, Connecticut is near the top of the list: its $95,781 median household income is 19% above the US median. No cost-of-living adjustment is applied, so this compares dollars earned rather than what they buy.

Reaching the top quarter of households takes about $169,596 in Connecticut, compared with $141,925 nationally. 19% of households here earn $200,000+, against 13% in the US overall.

Comparing the two Census products: $96,049 in the 2024 one-year estimate, $95,781 in the 2020–2024 five-year estimate (0%).

Income thresholds in Connecticut

In Connecticut, 19% of households have incomes of at least $200,000. By household income, the top 25% start at about $169,596, and the top 10% sit above $200,000. The table marks lines that fall above $200,000 rather than guessing their value: the Census groups everyone above that amount together, so the exact top-5% and top-1% cutoffs can't be read from this data.

Move a typical American household ($80,734 a year) to Connecticut and it would sit near the top 57% of local households.

The top-quarter line is 1.78 times the state's midpoint income, about the same as the national ratio of 1.77 — a rough gauge of how stretched the upper half of the income distribution is.

Earnings by age

Looking at individual earners rather than households, the Connecticut median climbs 39% from the 25–34 group ($52,474) to the 45–54 group ($73,098). On average the state runs +19% relative to the US at each age, with the largest difference among workers aged 65+. These figures are personal earnings (wages plus self-employment) from Census microdata, so they're lower than household income, which can combine several earners.

Married vs. single households

Household type matters as much as location. Married-couple households in Connecticut have a median income of $149,039, 2.7 times the $54,568 for single-person and other non-family households — often two incomes against one.

Highest- and lowest-income counties in Connecticut

Between Western Connecticut Planning Region ($128,188) and Naugatuck Valley Planning Region ($86,191), county medians differ by 1.5 times. All 9 counties are listed in the table.

Of Connecticut's 9 counties, 9 have a median household income above the national $80,734 — 100% of them. The middle county on the list, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, sits at $90,589.

About these numbers

Everything here comes from the Census's 2020–2024 American Community Survey: published tables for households across 9 counties, and 83,478 microdata records for personal earnings by age.