Bridgeport’s population jumped from from 144,229 to 148,654; or about 3.1 percent, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau that completed its 10-year review with billions of dollars tied to what Connecticut receives from the federal government.
Bridgeport grew faster than Connecticut’s 0.9 percent. New Haven increased by more than three percent and Hartford dropped about three percent.
Stamford is now officially the second most populous city in Connecticut behind Bridgeport with New Haven third.
Bridgeport by the numbers
One demographic driving Bridgeport’s increase is Downtown housing, an attractive market place from lower Fairfield County’s rental pricing.
Entire state results: ctcensus.
Connecticut has become more diverse led by a boost in Hispanic population.
Connecticut’s white population dropped by 14 percent in the past 10 years.
We’re still the sweet spot.
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and not the other way around.
Jeff Kohut, do you feel better now?
LE: While I admire your positive mindset about Bridgeport, I don’t see very much that’s positive about a city of increasing population in the context of a simultaneously declining grand list “highlighting” the virtual (and ultimately real, in all respects) loss of the one remaining jewel in our commercial/corporate crown…
There just doesn’t seem to be any effective, meaningful way to reiterate the observation of a socioeconomically-dying city, kept alive by the perfunctory life-support efforts of Hartford/DC, even as our local revitalization activity is geared toward the prohibitively-costly efforts of creating an unsustainable entertainment sector (which indeed cannot survive except through a dependable core of local, solidly middleclass patronage) per our bloodletting/destruction of a our residential tax-base — our only remaining significant) tax-base. What happens to our entertainment monuments to political ego/ambition and greed no longer have the residential taxpayer blood that they require for their totally non-cost-effect, grossly expensive sustenance?!…
Simply nothing to cheer about here, unfortunately. We only have succeeded in becoming Stamford’s underemployed, bankrupt, totally politically-dysfunctional, cheap-labor dormitory…
Cheers! Happy Bicentennial, Bridgeport!
You’ve found the bottom of the ladder which means I will unlikely find you at the top!
Take THAT Local Eyes!!!
When it comes to politics in Bridgeport, Bob Walsh spends his life behind this: https://tenor.com/view/number8-ball-8ball-object-ball-without-a-doubt-gif-16887407
And you talk about me being negative.
You have no peers! You still hold the gold medal in Olympic negativity.
That’s the families Mario shipped in from Bellona, the only requirement was they had to fill out an absentee ballot!
It’s called Ballot Bologna and yes, it’s on the menu, too.