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New Haven, CT Metro Area

The New Haven, CT metro area is one planning region in Connecticut: South Central Connecticut Planning Region. About 578,741 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 1.4% more than in April 2020.

South Central Connecticut Planning Region, centralNew Haven
South Central Connecticut Planning Region in Connecticut
Population, July 2025
578,741 1.4% more than in April 2020
Type
Metropolitan statistical area
Planning region
South Central Connecticut Planning Region
Land area
367 sq mi (951 km²)
Time zone
Eastern TimeUTC-05:00 in January; UTC-04:00 in July
State
Connecticut
Combined statistical area
New Haven-Hartford-Waterbury, CT
CBSA code
35300
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The planning region in the New Haven, CT metro area

Planning regionRolePopulation, July 2025
South Central Connecticut Planning RegionCentral578,741

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 city

  1. New Haven134,349 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 Haven-Hartford-Waterbury, CT combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 5 areas in this one, largest first:

  1. Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT Metro Area1,171,426 people
  2. Waterbury-Shelton, CT Metro Area463,349 people
  3. Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT Metro Area284,015 people
  4. Torrington, CT Micro Area114,690 people
  5. Putnam, CT Micro Area98,096 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. Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT Metro Area16 mi southwest
  2. Waterbury-Shelton, CT Metro Area18 mi north
  3. Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT Metro Area34 mi north
  4. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ Metro Area69 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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