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Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT Metro Area

The Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT metro area is made up of 2 planning regions in Connecticut: Western Connecticut and Greater Bridgeport. About 978,179 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 3.3% more than in April 2020.

Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, centralWestern Connecticut Planning Region, centralBridgeportStamfordDanbury
2 planning regions in Connecticut
Population, July 2025
978,179 3.3% more than in April 2020
Type
Metropolitan statistical area
Planning regions
2, both central
Land area
672 sq mi (1,741 km²)
Time zone
Eastern TimeUTC-05:00 in January; UTC-04:00 in July
State
Connecticut
Combined statistical area
New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA
CBSA code
14860
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Planning regions in the Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT metro area, largest first

Planning regionRolePopulation, July 2025Share of the area
Western Connecticut Planning RegionCentral640,48265.5%
Greater Bridgeport Planning RegionCentral337,69734.5%

A central planning region holds the area’s core, an urban area of at least 50,000 people. This area has no outlying planning regions: no neighboring planning region sends enough commuters to join it. A planning region belongs to one metro or micro area at most, and it counts whole, countryside included.

Principal cities, largest first

  1. Bridgeport149,153 people
  2. Stamford137,144 people
  3. Danbury87,263 people

OMB names the area after its largest principal cities. A principal city is the area’s largest city, plus any other city that is very large or a big job center, and smaller ones with at least as many jobs as working residents (2020 Census and commuting figures). People counts are American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates.

Part of the New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 6 areas in this one, largest first:

  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ Metro Area20,112,448 people
  2. Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY Metro Area718,377 people
  3. Trenton-Princeton, NJ Metro Area399,289 people
  4. Kingston, NY Metro Area183,330 people
  5. Monticello, NY Micro Area80,586 people
  6. Hemlock Farms, PA Micro Area62,808 people

Bordering metro and micro areas, nearest first

Areas with a planning region on this area’s edge. Distances are straight lines between the areas’ largest cities.

  1. New Haven, CT Metro Area16 mi northeast
  2. Waterbury-Shelton, CT Metro Area27 mi north
  3. Torrington, CT Micro Area45 mi north
  4. Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY Metro Area52 mi west
  5. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ Metro Area53 mi southwest

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A metro or micro area is a statistical area that OMB draws for federal statistics. It is not a city, a local government or a mailing address, and it is not a measure of urban and rural: whole counties count, rural parts included. Programs that use metro areas, such as housing income limits or wage rates, can use their own version of these lists; check the program’s own list for an address.

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