New London Named 2nd Drunkest Place to Live in Connecticut: Report

By Brian McCready and Jaimie Cura

There are so many rankings done on so many different subjects — best schools, best places to live, snobbiest communities — and then there’s this one.

RoadSnacks just published a list titled “These Are the 10 Drunkest Places in Connecticut.” The site’s analysts took it one step further and ranked 82 more towns to make a list of the top 92 drunkest cities in the state.

And how did they figure this out?

According to RoadSnacks, they studied the number of places to purchase alcohol in a community, coupled with how many “drunk-related tweets” were reported on social media in each town.

Then they factored in a community’s divorce rate, assuming that the higher the divorce rate, the more people drink alcohol. The divorce rate is three times higher if one of the spouses is an alcoholic, RoadSnacks said.

“Using that criteria, it’s not hard to scrape the internet, run some scientific data on where partiers might live in Connecticut, and then put out a list,” RoadSnacks reported. “Because, the data never lies, does it? You’re probably thinking, ‘Show me the proof!’ So, hold our beers and watch this. After analyzing all cities with a decent amount of people in them, we came up with this list as The Drunkest Cities in Connecticut.”

The 10 Drunkest Cities in Connecticut

1. Branford
2. New London
3. Plainville
4. Cromwell
5. Milford
6. New Haven
7. Torrington
8. Norwich
9. Manchester
10. Westport

Most of the communities are mid-size in Connecticut and all have a number of bars in them, the report notes.

New London’s Statistics, According to RoadSnacks

• Population: 27,631
• Divorce rate: 12%
• Bars per capita: 6th in the state
• Liquor stores per capita: 5th in the state

RoadSnacks said there weren’t too many ‘drunk tweets’ coming from New London, but they did have this to say:

“Hey now, New London. You simply have too many distractions in town for you to be at home watching Netflix, don’t you? Unless you’re curled up on the couch, watching Games of Thrones with a stiff jack and coke in your lap, of course. I mean, you do have the 5th most bars per capita in the state.”

The 5 Least Drunk Towns in Connecticut

1. Mansfield (Pop. 24,599)
2. Plymouth (Pop. 11,800)
3. Storrs (Pop. 14,041)
4. Weston (Pop. 10,540)
5. Trumbull (Pop. 36,088)

Read the full RoadSnacks report here.

Photo by Anders Adermark, via flickr creative commons