How Many Package Stores Does Monroe Have?

I’m not sure if you’ve ever wondered how many package stores are in your town.

Some towns seems to have an abundance of them, some have a few, and 15 Connecticut communities should actually have none, but more on that last part later.

The state Department of Consumer Protection allows one package store for every 2,500 residents.

Because of that regulation the following Connecticut towns are not supposed to have package stores including: Bridgewater, Canaan, Chaplin, Colebrook, Cornwall, Eastford, Franklin, Hartland, Lyme, Morris, Norfolk, Roxbury, Scotland, Union, and Warren.

And the communities that are allowed to have the most are of course the biggest cities including: Bridgeport, 57, Hartford, 49, New Haven, 51, Stamford, 49, and Waterbury, 44.

Monroe has a population of 19479 and is therefore allowed to have 7 package stores, according to the state Department of Consumer Protection’s website.

Trend CT, a Connecticut News Project publication, created a really interesting interactive map showing exactly how many package stores are located in each Connecticut community.

In some cases communities have less package stores than the state allows, and in some instances they actually have more than is allowed.

To see exactly how many package stores Monroe has click here for Trend CT’s interactive map.

The Register Citizen reported in 2014 that more than 30 Connecticut communities have more package stores than is allowed. One explanation is that the population had decreased and existing package stores were not forced to close or others were grandfathered in, the paper reported.

Also some towns that are supposed to have zero package stores because they have less than 2,500 residents still have them including Canaan, which has three.

Does anything about the data surprise you? Let us know in the comments section below.