Hartford, CT (Connecticut) Houses and Residents

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Hartford Apartments for Rent

Total population: 124,563 (All urban)

Hartford, Connecticut Age and Sex of Residents

Houses: 50,644 (44,986 occupied: 11,052 owner occupied, 33,934 renter occupied)

% of renters here:	75%
State:	33%

Housing density: 2926 houses/condos per square mile

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Median contract rent in 2007: $644 (lower quartile is $491, upper quartile is $777)

Housing units in Hartford with a mortgage: 4,658 (904 second mortgage, 388 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,842

Hartford,CT index of house prices

Estimated median house or condo value in 2007: $173,700 (it was $95,300 in 2000)

Hartford:	$173,700
Connecticut:	$309,200

Lower value quartile - upper value quartile: $144,500 - $242,200

Mean price in 2007:

Detached houses: $198,516
Here: $198,516
State: $418,487

Townhouses or other attached units: $238,746
Here: $238,746
State: $295,130

In 2-unit structures: $241,429
Here: $241,429
State: $295,498

In 3-to-4-unit structures: $237,863
Here: $237,863
State: $253,799

In 5-or-more-unit structures: $106,167
Here: $106,167
State: $220,717

Mobile homes: $45,000
Here: $45,000
State: $51,379

Median year house/condo built: 1940

Median year apartment built: 1952

Household type by relationship

Households: 116,194

In family households: 95,455 (10,530 male householders, 16,923 female householders)
11,538 spouses, 41,187 children (39,200 natural, 892 adopted, 1,095 stepchildren), 4,500 grandchildren, 2,191 brothers or sisters, 1,647 parents, 2,595 other relatives, 4,344 non-relatives
In nonfamily households: 20,739 (8,703 male householders (7,320 living alone)), 8,880 female householders (7,608 living alone)), 3,156 nonrelatives
In group quarters: 5,384 (2,416 institutionalized population)

Size of family households: 8,530 2-persons, 7,261 3-persons, 5,671 4-persons, 3,391 5-persons, 1,532 6-persons, 1,068 7-or-more-persons.

Size of nonfamily households: 14,928 1-person, 2,319 2-persons, 220 3-persons, 65 4-persons, 42 5-persons, 9 6-persons.

10,401 married couples with children.
19,820 single-parent households (1,993 men, 17,827 women).

53.5% of residents of Hartford speak English at home.
36.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
8.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (51% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 19% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (34% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 21% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (57% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).

Foreign born population: 22,671 (18.6%)
(44.4% of them are naturalized citizens)

Median number of rooms in houses and condos:

Here:	5.6
State:	6.4

Median number of rooms in apartments:

Here:	3.9
State:	4.0

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Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Hartford, Connecticut:
	1 room: 20 2 rooms: 187 3 rooms: 482 4 rooms: 969 5 rooms: 3,550 6 rooms: 3,023 7 rooms: 1,080 8 rooms: 600 9 or more rooms: 1,141

Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Hartford, Connecticut:
	1 room: 2,490 2 rooms: 3,783 3 rooms: 7,886 4 rooms: 7,557 5 rooms: 8,366 6 rooms: 2,770 7 rooms: 528 8 rooms: 358 9 or more rooms: 196

Year house built:

1999 to March 2000: 294
1995 to 1998: 595
1990 to 1994: 1,127
1980 to 1989: 3,355
1970 to 1979: 5,769
1960 to 1969: 7,687
1950 to 1959: 7,904
1940 to 1949: 7,540
1939 or earlier: 16,373

Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses and condos in Hartford:
	no bedroom: 65 1 bedroom: 719 2 bedrooms: 3,576 3 bedrooms: 4,534 4 bedrooms: 1,292 5 or more bedrooms: 866

Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Hartford:
	no bedroom: 2,801 1 bedroom: 11,889 2 bedrooms: 11,843 3 bedrooms: 6,353 4 bedrooms: 869 5 or more bedrooms: 179

Owners and renters by unit type in %

Breakdown of mean house values by ages of householders

Cars and other vehicles available in Hartford in owner-occupied houses/condos:
	no vehicle: 1,384 1 vehicle: 4,790 2 vehicles: 3,421 3 vehicles: 1,182 4 vehicles: 195 5 or more vehicles: 80

Cars and other vehicles available in Hartford in n renter-occupied apartments
	no vehicle: 14,873 1 vehicle: 14,095 2 vehicles: 4,319 3 vehicles: 366 4 vehicles: 109 5 or more vehicles: 172

Estimate of home value of owner-occupied houses in 2000 in Hartford, CT:

Less than $10,000: 0
$10,000 to $14,999: 6
$15,000 to $19,999: 37
$20,000 to $24,999: 13
$25,000 to $29,999: 18
$30,000 to $34,999: 19
$35,000 to $39,999: 29
$40,000 to $49,999: 200
$50,000 to $59,999: 326
$60,000 to $69,999: 388
$70,000 to $79,999: 543
$80,000 to $89,999: 1283
$90,000 to $99,999: 983
$100,000 to $124,999: 1219
$125,000 to $149,999: 546
$150,000 to $174,999: 238
$175,000 to $199,999: 152
$200,000 to $249,999: 164
$250,000 to $299,999: 93
$300,000 to $399,999: 130
$400,000 to $499,999: 42
$500,000 to $749,999: 66
$750,000 to $999,999: 0
$1,000,000 or more: 5

Hartford rent paid by renters for apartments graph

Rent paid by renters in 2007 in Hartford:

Less than $100: 906 people
$100 to $149: 850
$150 to $199: 1,433
$200 to $249: 949
$250 to $299: 691
$300 to $349: 686
$350 to $399: 807
$400 to $449: 1,027
$450 to $499: 1,192
$500 to $549: 1,915
$550 to $599: 2,730
$600 to $649: 3,495
$650 to $699: 3,583
$700 to $749: 2,831
$750 to $799: 2,337
$800 to $899: 3,683
$900 to $999: 1,809
$1,000 to $1,249: 1,252
$1,250 to $1,499: 164
$1,500 to $1,999: 59
$2,000 or more: 109
No cash rent: 610

Year of entry for the foreign-born population
	1995 to March 2000: 6,224 1990 to 1994: 3,722 1985 to 1989: 3,252 1980 to 1984: 2,743 1975 to 1979: 1,408 1970 to 1974: 1,654 1970 to 1974: 1,574 1965 to 1969: 2,094

Hartford, CT Time Leaving Home for Work

Percentage of workers working in this county: 93.7%
Number of people working at home: 689 (1.7% of all workers)

Travel time to work

Less than 5 minutes: 929
5 to 9 minutes: 3886
10 to 14 minutes: 6872
15 to 19 minutes: 8711
20 to 24 minutes: 6670
25 to 29 minutes: 1899
30 to 34 minutes: 5405
35 to 39 minutes: 488
40 to 44 minutes: 748
45 to 59 minutes: 1987
60 to 89 minutes: 1552
90 or more minutes: 1173

Hartford mode of transportation to work chart

Means of transportation to work

Drove a car alone: 23,084 (56%)
Carpooled: 6,746 (16%)
Bus or trolley bus: 7,458 (18%)
Streetcar or trolley car: 21 (0%)
Subway or elevated: 11 (0%)
Railroad: 12 (0%)
Ferryboat: 16 (0%)
Taxi: 91 (0%)
Bicycle: 110 (0%)
Walked: 2,374 (6%)
Other means: 397 (1%)
Worked at home: 689 (2%)

Household income:

Less than $10,000: 10524
$10,000 to $14,999: 4560
$15,000 to $19,999: 3853
$20,000 to $24,999: 3696
$25,000 to $29,999: 3393
$30,000 to $34,999: 2853
$35,000 to $39,999: 2705
$40,000 to $44,999: 2198
$45,000 to $49,999: 1656
$50,000 to $59,999: 2732
$60,000 to $74,999: 2835
$75,000 to $99,999: 2210
$100,000 to $124,999: 774
$125,000 to $149,999: 338
$150,000 to $199,999: 284
$200,000 or more: 425

First ancestries reported:

Other groups: 67245

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 9531

Jamaican: 7828

Italian: 3853

Irish: 2367

Polish: 2354

United States or American: 2214

Portuguese: 1350

Subsaharan African:: 1327

French (except Basque): 1085

African: 1082

English: 1056

Yugoslavian: 739

German: 730

West Indian: 534

French Canadian: 508

Albanian: 422

Russian: 370

Guyanese: 360

Haitian: 346

Barbadian: 262

British West Indian: 260

Scottish: 240

Swedish: 237

Greek: 237

Trinidadian and Tobagonian: 230

European: 213

Ukrainian: 205

Brazilian: 190

Armenian: 177

Lithuanian: 154

Canadian: 140

Arab:: 125

Ghanian: 107

Romanian: 104

Norwegian: 83

Scotch-Irish: 80

Dutch: 72

British: 72

Hungarian: 70

Eastern European: 61

Turkish: 53

Egyptian: 48

Czechoslovakian: 47

Cape Verdean: 42

Sudanese: 38

U.S. Virgin Islander: 35

Croatian: 33

Lebanese: 32

Welsh: 31

Nigerian: 29

Finnish: 29

Austrian: 29

Slovak: 25

Danish: 23

Iranian: 18

Northern European: 17

Moroccan: 17

Other Arab: 17

Ethiopian: 15

Belizean: 15

Swiss: 13

Celtic: 12

Estonian: 9

Senegalese: 9

Other West Indian: 9

Latvian: 8

Icelander: 8

Slavic: 8

Israeli: 7

Bermudan: 7

Arab/Arabic: 7

Soviet Union: 7

Scandinavian: 7

Czech: 6

Other Subsaharan African: 5

Bahamian: 5

Syrian: 4

Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:

Jamaica (32%)
Peru (7%)
Poland (5%)
Italy (4%)
Portugal (4%)
Guyana (4%)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (4%)

Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:

This state: 53877
Northeast: 11175
Midwest: 1113
South: 9649
West: 669

50% of Hartford residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 82% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 27% lived in Connecticut.

Education attainment for males 25 years and older:

No schooling: 907
Nursery to 4th grade: 714
5th and 6th grade: 1,607
7th and 8th grade: 1,975
9th grade: 1,667
10th grade: 1,565
11th grade: 1,593
12th grade, no diploma: 2,495
High school graduate (or equivalency): 9,728
Less than 1 year of college: 1,487
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 2,724
Associate degree: 1,021
Bachelor's degree: 2,542
Master's degree: 1,071
Professional school degree: 408
Doctorate degree: 246

Educational Attainment for Males

Education attainment for females 25 years and older:

No schooling: 1,472
Nursery to 4th grade: 1,074
5th and 6th grade: 1,574
7th and 8th grade: 2,218
9th grade: 2,076
10th grade: 1,859
11th grade: 2,038
12th grade, no diploma: 2,528
High school graduate (or equivalency): 11,512
Less than 1 year of college: 1,903
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 3,817
Associate degree: 1,650
Bachelor's degree: 2,488
Master's degree: 1,396
Professional school degree: 352
Doctorate degree: 161

Educational Attainment for Females

Class of Workers

Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic males: 18.4%
Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic females: 19.1%

Unemployment rate for Black males: 15.8%
Unemployment rate for Black females: 14.4%

Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native males: 18.9%
Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native females: 13.0%

Unemployment rate for Asian males: 9.3%
Unemployment rate for Asian females: 14.6%

Unemployment rate for other race males: 16.9%
Unemployment rate for other race females: 16.0%

Unemployment rate for two or more race males: 15.2%
Unemployment rate for two or more race females: 14.9%

Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino males: 16.7%
Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino females: 15.2%

Median household income in 2007 for:

White non-Hispanic householders: $40,044
Black householders: $25,817
American Indian and Alaska Native householders: $14,403
Asian householders: $26,950
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander householders: $25,607
Some other race householders: $24,891
Two or more races householders: $33,815
Hispanic or Latino race householders: $24,035

Hartford household income for White non-Hispanic householders

Hartford household income for Black householders

Hartford household income for Asian householders

Hartford household income for Some other race householders

Hartford household income for Two or more races householders

Hartford household income for Hispanic or Latino race householders

Hartford marital status for males

Hartford marital status for females

Median 2007 house value for:

White Non-Hispanic householders: $179,350
Black or African American householders: $166,227
American Indian or Alaska Native householders: $486,104
Asian householders: $244,054
Some other race householders: $163,675
Two or more races householders: $163,857
Hispanic or Latino householders: $167,685

Housing units in structures:

One, detached: 7,553
One, attached: 2,145
Two: 6,028
3 or 4: 12,317
5 to 9: 7,505
10 to 19: 4,611
20 to 49: 5,110
50 or more: 5,325
Mobile homes: 32
Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 18

Median worth of mobile homes: $61,430

Housing units lacking complete plumbing facilities: 2%

Housing units lacking complete kitchen facilities: 2%

Year Householders Moved Into Unit in Hartford:

Most commonly used house heating fuel in houses and condos:
	Utility gas (55%) Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (37%) Electricity (3%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%) Other fuel (1%)

Most commonly used house heating fuel in apartments:
	Utility gas (54%) Electricity (20%) Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (19%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%) Other fuel (1%) No fuel used (1%)

Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 736

Here:	4.2%
Connecticut:	9.9%

Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 585

Here:	7.2%
Connecticut:	11.0%

Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,886

Here:	30.3%
Connecticut:	33.4%

School Enrollment by Level of School for Male Students

School Enrollment by Level of School for Female Students

Age and Sex of Sensory-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Physically-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Mentally-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Self-Care Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Go-Outside-Home Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Residents with Employment Disability (Noninst.)

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