'2022 Best Places to Raise a Family in Connecticut': New Report

CONNECTICUT — A new report ranked every neighborhood in Connecticut to come up with the best place to raise a family.

Last month personal finance website MoneyRates named ranked Connecticut No. 4, behind New Jersey, Massachusetts and Utah on its list of "10 Best States to Raise A Family." Now, education platform Niche parsed the metrics even further to divine the "2022 Best Places to Raise a Family in Connecticut."

Niche analysts judged Connecticut neighborhoods on their schools, housing, jobs, weather, crime rate and seven other "quality of life" yardsticks, giving each a traditional "report card" of academic-type grades.

Four of the top ten neighborhoods on the Niche list are in Gold Coast anchor Greenwich, challenging the maxim that money can't buy happiness.

At the top of the family friendliness food chain is Old Greenwich, with an A+ overall grade, according to Niche.

Here is the Niche "report card" for Old Greenwich:

Public Schools: A+
Crime & Safety: unavailable
Housing: B minus
Nightlife: B
Good for Families: A+
Diversity: C+
Jobs: B+
Weather: C+
Cost of Living: C
Health & Fitness: A+
Outdoor Activities: A
Commute: B+

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Six of the Top 10 Niche neighborhoods are in Fairfield County, with the remainder in Hartford County.

(Editor's note: All top 100 neighborhoods/towns received an overall score of at least an A- or better. If you want to see why your neighborhood received the score it did, please click on the town name for more information from Niche. If your town/neighborhood didn't make the top 100, click here to search for its score from Niche.)

Here's the Top 100 statewide:

1. Old Greenwich
2. Riverside
3. Weatogue
4. Ridgefield
5. Weston
6. Cos Cob
7. Avon
8. Greenwich
9. Simsbury
10. West Hartford
11. New Canaan
12. Southport
13. Glastonbury
14. Wilton
15. Farmington
16. Westport
17. Glastonbury Center
18. Glenville
19. West Simsbury
20. Fairfield
21. Woodbridge
22. Easton
23. Cheshire
24. Madison
25. Redding
26. Darien
27. North Granby
28. East Granby
29. Granby
30. South Windsor
31. Orange
32. Guilford
33. Collinsville
34. Bethany
35. Newtown
36. Canton
37. Pemberwick
38. Rocky Hill
39. Southbury
40. Washington
41. Monroe
42. Byram
43. Newfield
44. Middlebury
45. Marlborough
46. Burlington
47. Hebron
48. Tariffville
49. East Lyme
50. Georgetown
51. Old Lyme
52. New Hartford
53. Higganum
54. Roxbury
55. Lyme
56. Belltown
57. Brookfield
58. Waterford
59. Trumbull
60. Mansfield
61. Barkhamsted
62. Noank
63. Harwinton
64. Tolland
65. Suffield
66. Salem
67. Bridgewater
68. Pomfret
69. Mystic
70. Westover
71. Woodmont
72. Essex
73. Salmon Brook
74. Wethersfield
75. Cromwell
76. Niantic
77. Andover
78. North Stamford
79. Milford City
80. Kensington
81. South End
82. Coventry
83. Killingworth
84. Bethel
85. Milford
86. Haddam
87. Newington
88. Willington
89. Old Mystic
90. Deep River
91. Prospect
92. Glenbrook
93. North Haven
94. Litchfield
95. South Coventry
96. Southington
97. Ellington
98. Stonington
99. Bolton
100. Berlin