2020 Census Demographic Analysis By The "Five Connecticuts"

Over the past several months, we have explored population changes in Connecticut from 2010 to 2020, touching on topics such as overall changes, diversity, housing, analysis for specific towns, and more. In this short blog post, we explore population changes by race and ethnicity for each of the “Five Connecticuts,” a system developed by the University of Connecticut. This system uses socioeconomic trends such as poverty rate, household income, and more to categorize towns into five categories — Rural, Suburban, Urban Core, Urban Periphery, and Wealthy.

 

Change in Race/Ethnicity by The Five Connecticuts

While the overall population change from 2010 to 2020 was less than a 1% increase, changes varied greatly by race and ethnicity when broken down by the Five Connecticuts.

  • Residents who identified as Two or More Races or Other experienced the largest increase in population, particularly in Rural, Suburban, and Wealthy regions

  • White residents experienced a decrease in every region, with the largest decrease of 20% in the Urban Core regions

  • Hispanic and Latino residents experienced an overall increase of 30%, with increases of at least 50% in Suburban, Wealthy, and Rural regions

  • Residents who identified as Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander experienced a slight overall increase of 2%, but this varied from -10% in Urban Periphery and Wealthy regions to +32% in Rural regions

Explore the table below for more details.

 

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Census & ACS, Demographics & PopulationJason Cheung