How Do Windsor Locks and East Windsor Stack Up Against Similar Communities?

Connecticut Magazine has come out with its annual “Rating the Towns” list. The ratings, published in its November issue, group the state’s many communities by median home value, ranking towns that have similar resources.

The magazine explains that in the past, when they rated towns by population, a city like Bridgeport was being measured against a town like Greenwich, which in reality are two very different communities.

Towns were ranked on the following categories:

• Education
• Civic Engagement
• Economy
• Crime
• Leisure and Culture

Click here for a breakdown of how the magazine established the rankings for each category.

Now, how do Windsor Locks and East Windsor fare when compared to similar towns? For starters, the towns are grouped with communities where the median home value is under $200,000 with that value being $173,100 for Windsor Locks and $156,800 for East Windsor. A total of 43 towns made it into this category.

Here’s how Windsor Locks was ranked in the following categories:

• Leisure and Culture: 31
• Economy: 10
• Crime: 24
• Community Engagement: 18
• Education: 28

Here’s how East Windsor was ranked in the following categories:

• Leisure and Culture: 35
• Economy: 15
• Crime: 42
• Community Engagement: 35
• Education: 21

The magazine notes, “The towns in this group are the relative bargains of Connecticut, places where your house-buying dollar will go its furthest. Consequently, many of these places are either off the beaten path or have an abundance of affordable housing.”

Click here to read more about the rankings.