How Has North Haven's Household Income Changed Since the 2007 Recession?

The Connecticut Mirror took an in-depth look at income brackets in Connecticut from 2007 to 2013 and they found that there are more higher income and lower income households, which means that the middle class is shrinking.

Overall for Connecticut, the number of households earning more than $200,000 in Connecticut grew by 1.7 percent from 2007 to 2013 and now stands at 9 percent.

The number of households earning more than $100,000 in Connecticut grew by 3.8 percent from 2007 to 2013 and is now at 33.1 percent.

But the number of households in Connecticut earning $25,000 or less has actually increased slightly from 2007 to 2013 and now stands at 18.6 percent.

North Haven’s numbers, however, actually buck that trend.

In North Haven, the number of households earning $200,000 or more in 2013 was 6.7 percent and that rate was 7.1 percent in 2007. The number of households earning $100,000 or more in 2013 was 38.5 percent and it was 34.8 percent in 2007 in North Haven.

In North Haven, 13 percent of the households earned less than $25,000 in 2007 and that number decreased to 9 percent in 2013.

North Haven households earning $35,000 to $49,000 increased from 7.9 percent in 2007 to 8.8 percent in 2013.

The CT Mirror takes an in-depth look at North Haven’s income brackets, which can be viewed by clicking here.

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