An 88,425-home deficit for its poorest renters, a 77-hour commute in the New York spillover corridor, $40.2 billion of documented water need — and a four-hospital rural fleet of which three screen at risk of closing, alongside the smallest remaining broadband gap in this series.
How to read this page: the class chip on every measure is the honesty label. Counted = an inspection or enumeration record. Modeled = a study's projection or risk score — printed with the modeler's name. Assessed = a structured survey of required investment — needs as documented, not measurements of decay. Figures keep the form their source gave them; years are printed on every measure.
Click any category to expand it — every measure with its figure, what it means in plain language, and its source.
Every measure carries its value, class, geography, year, definition, context and source. Three Connecticut-specific cautions are printed rather than smoothed over. Hospitals: the rural fleet is exactly four hospitals — the four systems in the state's own Rural Health Transformation Program — and the CHQPR screen is printed exactly as published (3 of 4 at risk, 2 at immediate risk); no suburban hospital has been stretched into 'rural' and no Chartis Connecticut count is printed, because none was published in the sources reviewed. Traffic: Bridgeport–Stamford is a bi-state (CT–NY) urban area and is labelled as such — TTI publishes no Connecticut-only figure for Fairfield County inside a New York-metro table, and no New York-metro figure is presented as a Connecticut figure. Power: Connecticut's grid is ISO New England's, so the gas-share and import measures are labelled regional, with the state's one in-state concentration (Millstone, private generation) printed as context only.
Instruments are never blended: USDA's surveyed household rate (12.1%) and Feeding America's modelled individual count (516,000) sit side by side unmerged; TTI's per-commuter hours and metro totals are labelled as different instruments; the LILA figure is a tract count, never converted to residents; and ASCE's 2026 water figures are printed with ASCE's own 2024 figures named alongside, because the EPA survey basis broadened between the two reports. News-flagged: two measures rest on news presentation of official or research figures and are flagged on their records — the CHQPR hospital screen (Becker's Hospital Review) and the LILA tract count (Connecticut Hospital Association clip of the state commission's 2024 report). Honest gaps: no published statewide poor-condition share for dams was found, so the dams category prints the high-hazard count alone; broadband's 717-location figure is the BEAD-eligible remainder, not a census of every household with slow service.
Severity scores are editorial (0–100 band), calibrated against the other states in this series — Connecticut's range (28–84) reflects a state that is simultaneously near the national worst for worst-case congestion in its southwest corridor and rural-hospital risk share, and near the national best on the remaining broadband gap.