Census-designated place · Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut

Salmon Brook, Connecticut

Salmon Brook is a census-designated place in Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, part of the Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT metro area. It has 2,343 residents. Salmon Brook, Connecticut has a quality-of-life score of 85 out of 100 (very high), ranking #2,306 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Connecticut it ranks #60 of 160 cities and towns. It ranks best on unemployment rate (low), uninsured residents (under 65) (low) and poor or fair health (low). It ranks worst on effective property tax rate (high), time spent in the emergency room (high) and child care cost burden (high).

85Very high

Quality-of-life score: #2,306 of 15,651 cities and towns
Connecticut: #60 of 160 in CT
Population: 2,343 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 712.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 0966455

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 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.

Safety66#5,267/15,637
Economy83#2,703/15,631
Housing53#7,088/14,977
Health83#2,670/15,609
Healthcare88#1,807/15,650
Environment30#10,807/15,453
Education75#3,916/15,649
Infrastructure80#3,202/15,650
Community77#3,635/15,651
Leisure & amenities82#2,793/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Salmon Brook, 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

Unemployment rate · low0.0%
98/100Connecticut 4.0%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Uninsured residents (under 65) · low0.8%
97/100Connecticut 7.0%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010High uncertainty
Poor or fair health · low10.9%
96/100Connecticut 15.9%United States 19.9%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Mental health providers · high656 /100k
95/100Connecticut 514 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCapitol Planning Region value
Rent as share of income · low22.9%
92/100Connecticut 31.4%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Public EV charging ports · high15.9 /10k
91/100Connecticut 13.4 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyCapitol Planning Region value

Weaknesses

Effective property tax rate · high2.10%
6/100Connecticut 1.54%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
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 cost burden · 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

Trends

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

Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
41.1% (2015-2019) → 57.2% (2020-2024)
+16 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.6× (2015-2019) → 4.4× (2020-2024)
+65%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateImproving
10.0% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−10 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Unemployment rateImproving
5.9% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−5.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
85.9% (2015-2019) → 91.7% (2020-2024)
+5.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeWorsening
$96,932 (2015-2019) → $74,375 (2020-2024)
−23%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604

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, Salmon Brook, Connecticut improved on 3 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 5 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.

Improved3

Unemployment−5.9 points5.9% → 0.0%
Bachelor's++16 points41.1% → 57.2%
Inequality−0.0930.488 → 0.395

Declined1

Price / income+1.7×2.6× → 4.4×

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Salmon Brook, Connecticut between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Bachelor's degree or higher	41.1%2015-2019	57.2%2020-2024	+16 points	Improved	98%
Broadband subscriptions	85.9%2015-2019	91.7%2020-2024	+5.8 points	Within the margin of error	36%
Effective property tax rate	2.26%2015-2019	2.10%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	50%
High school diploma or higher	94.1%2015-2019	96.9%2020-2024	+2.8 points	Within the margin of error	67%
Home price to income ratio	2.6×2015-2019	4.4×2020-2024	+1.7×	Declined	6%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4882015-2019	0.3952020-2024	−0.093	Improved	95%
Median household income	$96,9322015-2019	$74,3752020-2024	−23%	Within the margin of error	1%
Rent as share of income	25.2%2015-2019	22.9%2020-2024	−2.3 points	Within the margin of error	71%
Unemployment rate	5.9%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	−5.9 points	Improved	97%

“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 Salmon Brook, Connecticut five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Salmon Brook, 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, Salmon Brook, Connecticut itself moved +0.9 points in standing on average over the same 8 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

2,343 residents (±436)

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

1,118 households (±281)

Salmon Brook, Connecticut
Connecticut share

Under $25k8.1%†90
$25k–50k12%†135
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,118 households (±281)

Salmon Brook, Connecticut
Connecticut share

Own81%900
Rent19%†218

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

1,129 workers (±367)

Salmon Brook, Connecticut
Connecticut share

Drive alone67%†753
Carpool2.0%†23
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 Salmon Brook'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

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County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 981,775 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Salmon Brook 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.

Salmon Brook, 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-

County

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

Capitol Planning Region80100% 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
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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