Census-designated place · Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut

Plantsville, Connecticut

Plantsville is a census-designated place in Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, part of the Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT metro area. It has 2,220 residents. Plantsville, Connecticut has a quality-of-life score of 68 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,054 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Connecticut it ranks #113 of 160 cities and towns. It ranks best on mental health providers (high), unemployment rate (low) and public EV charging ports (high). It ranks worst on time spent in the emergency room (high), child care net cost (high) and high ozone days (high).

68High

Quality-of-life score: #5,054 of 15,651 cities and towns
Connecticut: #113 of 160 in CT
Population: 2,220 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 2,231.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 0960260

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 78 of 83 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety68#4,929/15,637
Economy78#3,410/15,631
Housing27#10,928/14,977
Health67#5,178/15,609
Healthcare83#2,654/15,650
Environment30#10,830/15,453
Education59#6,364/15,650
Infrastructure42#9,026/15,650
Community67#5,105/15,651
Leisure & amenities82#2,793/15,651
Nature & outdoors—

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Plantsville, Connecticut ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Capitol Planning Region value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Mental health providers · high656 /100k
95/100Connecticut 514 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCapitol Planning Region value
Unemployment rate · low0.8%
93/100Connecticut 4.0%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Public EV charging ports · high15.9 /10k
92/100Connecticut 13.5 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyCapitol Planning Region value
Average weekly wage · high$1,628
90/100Connecticut $1,750United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsCapitol Planning Region value
Distance to an Amtrak station · low6 mi
90/100Connecticut 8 miUnited States 42 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauCapitol Planning Region value
Flu vaccinations · high53.2%
89/100Connecticut 52.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEstimated from related areas or data (see the source notes)Capitol Planning Region value

Weaknesses

Time spent in the emergency room · high232 min
7/100Connecticut 190 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesCapitol Planning Region value
Child care net cost · high40.3%
8/100Connecticut 39.8%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEstimated from related areas or data (see the source notes)Capitol Planning Region value
High ozone days · high8 days
11/100Connecticut 10 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyEstimated from related areas or data (see the source notes)Capitol Planning Region value
Days with unhealthy air · high2.2%
18/100Connecticut 3.5%2025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyEstimated from related areas or data (see the source notes)Capitol Planning Region value
Comfortable days · low23.7%
18/100Connecticut 24.6%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationEstimated from related areas or data (see the source notes)Capitol Planning Region value
Fast internet available · low96.3%
19/100Connecticut 98.4%United States 95.4%Dec 2025Federal Communications Commission

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
1,692 (2015-2019) → 2,220 (2020-2024)
+31%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
68.5% (2015-2019) → 47.5% (2020-2024)
−21 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$68,242 (2015-2019) → $113,299 (2020-2024)
+66%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Child poverty rateWorsening
0.0% (2015-2019) → 7.6% (2020-2024)
+7.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
35.9% (2015-2019) → 28.7% (2020-2024)
−7.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Home price to income ratioImproving
4.0× (2015-2019) → 2.6× (2020-2024)
−34%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Plantsville, Connecticut improved on 2 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved2

Price / income−1.3×4.0× → 2.6×
Household income+66%$68,242 → $113,299

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Plantsville, Connecticut between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.8 min2015-2019	19.1 min2020-2024	−1.7 min	Within the margin of error	68%
Bachelor's degree or higher	35.2%2015-2019	31.5%2020-2024	−3.6 points	Within the margin of error	10%
Effective property tax rate	1.12%2015-2019	1.47%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	1%
High school diploma or higher	96.1%2015-2019	93.7%2020-2024	−2.4 points	Within the margin of error	13%
Home price to income ratio	4.0×2015-2019	2.6×2020-2024	−1.3×	Improved	99%
Households subscribed to broadband	88.6%2015-2019	86.2%2020-2024	−2.4 points	Within the margin of error	4%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4162015-2019	0.3802020-2024	−0.036	Within the margin of error	77%
Median household income	$68,2422015-2019	$113,2992020-2024	+66%	Improved	93%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	35.9%2015-2019	28.7%2020-2024	−7.2 points	Within the margin of error	88%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Plantsville, Connecticut five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Plantsville, Connecticut in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Plantsville, Connecticut itself moved +3.4 points in standing on average over the same 9 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

2,220 residents (±557)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

1,070 households (±303)

Plantsville, Connecticut
Connecticut share

Under $25k11%†117
$25k–50k21%†230
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

1,070 households (±303)

Plantsville, Connecticut
Connecticut share

Own64%†683
Rent36%†387

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

1,474 workers (±486)

Plantsville, Connecticut
Connecticut share

Drive alone95%†1,405
Carpool0.7%†10
Public transit

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Capitol Planning Region, the county holding most of Plantsville's residents.

Capitol Planning Region has 23,642 employer establishments, 241 for every 10,000 residents (0.97× the US rate of 248; 0.98× Connecticut's), with 473,777 paid employees at an average annual pay of $72,492. The Census Bureau also counts 77,611 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 23,642; 77,611 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 241; US 248 · Connecticut 245
Paid employees: 473,777
Average annual pay: $72,492; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Capitol Planning Region by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	2,311	23.5	1.13×About typical	33,408	$81,007	4,741
Restaurants and other eating places	1,974	20.1	1.09×About typical	32,557	$24,709	415
Specialty trade contractors	1,381	14.1	0.91×About typical	14,109	$84,337	4,532
Full-service restaurants	870	8.9	1.15×About typical	16,471	$28,412	147
Offices of physicians	803	8.2	1.26×More than typical	14,947	$108,694	824
Limited-service restaurants	769	7.8	0.98×About typical	10,914	$22,366	199
Services to buildings and dwellings	757	7.7	1.14×About typical	7,108	$43,194	3,198
Lessors of real estate	687	7	0.57×Fewer than typical	3,876	$65,408	8,743
Personal care services	660	6.7	1.41×More than typical	2,852	$28,687	3,364
Building equipment contractors	631	6.4	1.07×About typical	7,729	$87,891	880
Offices of other health practitioners	611	6.2	1.02×About typical	3,980	$49,074	2,579
Legal services	548	5.6	1.04×About typical	4,413	$102,236	837

Public schools

Public schools located in Plantsville, Connecticut and the districts that run them (NCES Common Core of Data). Students per teacher counts full-time-equivalent teachers, not the size of each class.

Plantsville, Connecticut has 2 public schools with 894 students and 12.0 students per teacher (Connecticut: 12.2, US: 15.2).

Elementary schools: 1
Middle schools: 1
High schools: 0
Students per teacher: 12.0; US: 15.2

School districts

Districts with schools here, by students here.

District	Schools	Students	Spending / student
Southington School District	2	894	$22,188

Largest schools

School	Grades	Students	Students / teacher	District
John F. Kennedy Middle School	6–8	659	12.2	Southington School District
Zaya A. Oshana Elementary School	K–5	235	11.5	Southington School District

All 2 schools

Sources

Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $7,165 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Plantsville, Connecticut: $3.23 per resident (US $2,158).

Obligations: $7,165
Per resident: $3.23; US $2,158
Sole-source: 34%; US 31%
Single offer: 66%; US 8.9%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Department of the Navy$7,165100%

Top recipients

ATHENS INDUSTRIES, INC.$7,165100%

Spending by fiscal year

7.2KFY2026

What was bought

Other equipment & supplies$7,165100%

Top industries (NAICS)

Metalworking machinery manufacturing · 3335$4,71266%
Cutlery and handtool manufacturing · 3322$2,45334%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 22, 2026, loaded Oct 22, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Plantsville, Connecticut, so they do not add up across cities.

Plantsville, Connecticut's figures are part of those of Capitol Planning Region, CT ($8.4B in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Plantsville is mostly in Capitol Planning Region.

See federal money in Capitol Planning Region

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Plantsville, Connecticut is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

Christopher MurphyD-CT

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Capitol Planning Region81100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT90

Other cities and towns in Capitol Planning Region

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
National Broadband Map (Broadband Data Collection)Federal Communications Commission · release 2025-12-31
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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