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State Fact Sheets: Connecticut
• Population, Income, Food Insecurity, Education, and Employment
• Federal Funds
• Organic Agriculture
• Farm Characteristics
• Farm Financial Indicators
• Top Commodities, Exports, and Counties
• About the State Fact Sheets

Data updated January 17, 2012

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Population, Income, Food Insecurity, Education, and Employment

Population
  Rural * Urban * Total
Year
    1980 249,081 2,858,483 3,107,564
    1990 276,617 3,010,499 3,287,116
    2000 291,284 3,114,281 3,405,565
    2010 308,355 3,265,742 3,574,097

More information on Connecticut population
• County-level Population Data
• Rural Population and Migration Briefing Room
• Contact John Cromartie, 202-694-5421.

Income
  Rural * Urban * Total
Per-capita income (2009 dollars)
    2008 46,125 58,009 56,971
    2009 45,312 56,248 55,296
    Percent change -1.8 -3.0 -2.9
 
Earnings per job (2009 dollars)
    2008 42,546 65,335 63,779
    2009 42,441 64,651 63,144
    Percent change -0.2 -1.0 -1.0
 
Poverty rate (percent)
    1979 6.8 8.1 8.0
    1989 5.5 6.9 6.8
    1999 6.0 8.0 7.9
    2010 (latest model-based estimates) 8.6 10.2 10.1

More information on Connecticut poverty rates
• County-level Poverty Data
• Rural Income, Poverty, and Welfare Briefing Room
• See important notes about decennial and model-based intercensal poverty estimates
• Contact Tracey Farrigan, 202-694-5489

Household-level Food Insecurity and Very Low Food Security
  2002-04 Avg. 2005-07 Avg. 2008-10 Avg.
Percent of households
    Food insecure 8.6 8.8 12.7
    Very low food security 3.0 3.2 4.8

More information on Food Insecurity
• Food Security in the United States Briefing Room
• Definitions of Food Insecurity and Very Low Food Security
• Comparisons of prevalence rates of food insecurity between States must take account of the margins of error, which are sizeable for many States. Margins of error are published along with State prevalence rates in each year’s Household Food Security in the United States report.
• Contact Alisha Coleman-Jensen, 202-694-5456.

Education (Persons 25 and older)
  Rural * Urban * Total
Percent not completing high school
    1980 (Census) 33.4 29.3 29.7
    1990 (Census) 22.6 20.6 20.8
    2000 (Census) 16.4 16.0 16.0
    2006-2010 (ACS) 11.3 11.7 11.6
 
Percent completing high school only
    1980 (Census) 35.0 34.3 34.4
    1990 (Census) 31.8 29.3 29.5
    2000 (Census) 32.9 28.0 28.5
    2006-2010 (ACS) 33.3 28.1 28.6
 
Percent completing some college
    1980 (Census) 14.8 15.3 15.3
    1990 (Census) 23.5 22.5 22.5
    2000 (Census) 26.3 23.9 24.1
    2006-2010 (ACS) 27.1 24.4 24.6
 
Percent completing college
    1980 (Census) 16.7 21.0 20.7
    1990 (Census) 22.1 27.6 27.2
    2000 (Census) 24.4 32.1 31.4
    2006-2010 (ACS) 28.3 35.8 35.2

More information on Connecticut education
• County-level Education Data
• Rural Labor and Education Briefing Room
• Contact Alexander Marré, 202-694-5338

Employment
  Rural * Urban * Total
Total number of jobs
    2008 153,693 2,096,357 2,250,050
    2009 148,368 2,037,940 2,186,308
 
Percent employment change
    2007-2008 0.1 0.1 0.1
    2008-2009 -2.3 -1.9 -1.9
    2009-2010 -0.6 -0.3 -0.3
 
Unemployment rate (percent)
    2009 8.6 8.3 8.3
    2010 9.4 9.1 9.1

More information on Connecticut unemployment rates
• County-level Unemployment and Median Household Income Data
• Rural Labor and Education Briefing Room
• Contact Lorin Kusmin, 202-694-5429

Federal Funds, FY 2010
  Rural * Urban * Total
Federal funding, dollars per person
   All Federal funds 10,659 16,530 16,024
 
Federal funding by purpose (function codes)
      Agriculture and natural resources 26 12 14
      Community resources 1,306 1,450 1,438
      Defense and space 188 3,573 3,282
      Human resources 134 132 132
      Income security 8,644 10,077 9,954
      National functions 361 1,285 1,205
 
Federal funding by type of payments (object codes)
      Grants 1,003 1,793 1,725
      Direct loans 101 234 222
      Guaranteed/insured loans 1,233 1,323 1,315
      Retirement/disability payments 3,043 2,816 2,836
      Other direct payments to
      individuals		 4,807 6,115 6,002
      Direct payments, not to
      individuals		 35 50 49
      Procurement contracts 202 3,639 3,343
      Salaries and wages 236 560 532

Total does not include Statewide funds undistributed at the county level.

More information on Federal Funds
• Program Function and Object Code Definitions
• Federal Funds and Development Policy Briefing Room
• Federal Funds Data
• Contact Richard Reeder, 202-694-5360


* The terms “rural” and “urban” here refer to data for nonmetro and metro areas, a county-level classification defined by the Office of Management and Budget. We use the June 2003 version of nonmetro and metro areas because it reflects conditions at the beginning of the decade. See Measuring Rurality: What is Rural? for a discussion of differences between metro-nonmetro categories and the Census Bureau’s rural-urban classification.
 
More information on socioeconomic conditions
• Rural Emphasis Page
• Contact Tim Parker, 202-694-5435.

Organic Agriculture

  2006 2007 2008
Number of certified operations 32 36 37
Crops (acres) 517 376 344
Pasture & rangeland (acres) 93 93 93
Total acres 610 469 437

More information on organic agriculture
• Organic Production Data
• Organic Agriculture Briefing Room
• Contact Catherine Greene, 202-694-5541.

Farm Characteristics

1997, 2002 and 2007 Census of Agriculture
 
  1997 2002 2007
Approximate total land area (acres) 3,101,053 3,100,675 3,100,721
    Total farmland (acres) 406,222 357,154 405,616
        Percent of total land area 13.1 11.5 13.1
 
        Cropland (acres) 200,586 170,673 163,686
            Percent of total farmland 49.4 47.8 40.4
            Percent in pasture 16.0 13.7 7.6
            Percent irrigated 3.8 5.9 5.9
 
            Harvested Cropland (acres) 153,446 131,248 136,833
 
        Woodland (acres) 139,660 127,231 124,875
            Percent of total farmland 34.4 35.6 30.8
            Percent in pasture 13.6 16.0 13.6
 
        Pastureland (acres) 22,659 21,988 32,823
            Percent of total farmland 5.6 6.2 8.1
 
        Land in house lots, ponds,
        roads, wasteland, etc. (acres)		 43,317 37,262 84,232
            Percent of total farmland 10.7 10.4 20.8
 
Conservation practices
        Farmland in conservation or
        wetlands reserve programs
        (acres)		 4,508 675 911
 
Average farm size (acres) 83 85 83
 
Farms by size (percent)
            1 to 99 acres 76.6 77.0 78.3
            100 to 499 acres 21.2 20.2 19.6
            500 to 999 acres 1.5 2.2 1.3
            1000 to 1,999 acres 0.5 0.5 0.6
            2,000 or more acres 0.1 0.1 0.2
 
Farms by sales (percent)
            Less than $9,999 66.7 67.3 65.4
            $10,000 to $49,999 18.1 17.7 20.0
            $50,000 to $99,999 5.0 4.5 4.7
            $100,000 to $499,999 7.7 7.4 6.4
            More than $500,000 2.4 3.1 3.6
 
Tenure of farmers
        Full owner (farms) 3,268 2,886 3,490
            Percent of total 66.6 68.9 71.0
 
        Part owner (farms) 1,185 955 1,097
            Percent of total 24.2 22.8 22.3
 
        Tenant owner (farms) 452 350 329
            Percent of total 9.2 8.4 6.7
 
Farm organization
        Individuals/family, sole
        proprietorship (farms)		 4,040 3,436 3,967
            Percent of total 82.4 82.0 80.7
 
        Family-held corporations
        (farms)		 347 300 350
            Percent of total 7.1 7.2 7.1
 
        Partnerships (farms) 435 341 485
            Percent of total 8.9 8.1 9.9
 
        Non-family corporations (farms) 39 38 39
            Percent of total 0.8 0.9 0.8
 
        Others - cooperative, estate or
        trust, institutional, etc. (farms)		 44 76 75
            Percent of total 0.9 1.8 1.5
 
Characteristics of principal farm operators
        Average operator age (years) 55.0 55.4 57.6
        Percent with farming as their
         primary occupation		 45.4 49.6 46.2
        Men 4,096 3,323 3,755
        Women 809 868 1,161
 

More information on farm characteristics
• Census of Agriculture
• Contact NASS Customer Service, 1-800-727-9540.

Farm Financial Indicators

Farm income and value added data
  2009 2010
 
Number of farms 4,900 4,900
 
  Thousands $
       Final crop output 363,687 339,652
+     Final animal output 142,593 160,693
+     Services and forestry 116,420 91,612
=   Final agricultural sector output 622,700 591,957
 
-      Intermediate consumption outlays 288,382 282,416
+     Net government transactions -18,748 -16,086
=   Gross value added 315,570 293,455
 
-      Capital consumption 69,106 70,658
 
=   Net value added 246,464 222,797
 
-    Factor payments 161,027 156,999
         Employee compensation (total hired labor) 140,359 135,393
         Net rent received by nonoperator landlords -4,955 -2,801
         Real estate and nonreal estate interest 25,623 24,407
 
=   Net farm income 85,438 65,798
 

More information on farm income
• Farm Income Data
• Farm Income and Costs Briefing Room
• Contact Timothy Park, 202-694-5446.

Farm balance sheet
 
• Estimation of State-level Balance Sheets has been suspended. See the Farm Balance Sheet data page for more information.
 

Top Commodities, Exports, and Counties

Top 5 agriculture commodities, 2010
  Value of receipts
thousand $		 Percent of state total
farm receipts		 Percent of US value
1. Greenhouse/nursery 229,000 45.8 1.5
2. Dairy products 65,340 13.1 0.2
3. Chicken eggs 39,566 7.9 0.6
4. Aquaculture 30,450 6.1 2.3
5. Apples 10,141 2.0 0.4
 
All commodities 500,021   0.2
 

More information on Connecticut's top agriculture commodities
• Leading commodities by cash receipts in Excel.
• Other cash receipts data.
• Contact Ted Covey, 202-694-5344.

Top 5 agriculture exports, estimates, FY 2010
  Rank among states Value
million $
1. Tobacco unmfd. 3 93.4
2. Other 18 74.1
3. Poultry and products 35 3.5
4. Seeds 38 3.1
5. Fruits and preparations 29 2.7
 
Total export value 41 179.8
 

More information on agricultural exports
• State Export Data
• Agricultural Trade Briefing Room
• Contact Nora Brooks, 202-694-5211.

Top 5 counties in agricultural sales 2007
  Percent of state total receipts Thousands $
1. Hartford County 24.2 133,582
2. New London County 20.0 110,068
3. New Haven County 16.3 90,173
4. Middlesex County 10.1 55,753
5. Litchfield County 8.6 47,418
 
State total   551,553
 

More information on agricultural sales
• Census of Agriculture
• Contact NASS Customer Service, 1-800-727-9540.



Data Sources

Prepared by Economic Research Service, USDA, Washington, DC.

For more information, contact: Tim Parker
Web administration: webadmin@ers.usda.gov
Updated date: January 17, 2012