9 Hartford County Towns In Top 40 For Home Vacancies In CT

HARTFORD COUNTY, CT — Nine Hartford County towns cracked the top 40 in terms of Connecticut towns with the most vacant homes within their borders.

The real estate service site Sundae.com collected data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey Five-Year Estimates, released on Dec. 10, for the years 2015-2019, to compile a list of cities with the most vacant homes.

The list is ranked by the percentage of vacant homes out of all housing units in the city, and ties are broken by the total number of vacant homes. Only cities with at least 5,000 housing units were considered.

Hartford was second in the state. The city had 8,063 vacant homes out of an available 54,753 housing units at the time the chart was compiled.

At No. 1o was New Britain, which had 31,800 available housing units and 1,930 vacancies at the time the chart was compiled. No. 25 Bristol had similar statistics with 1,908 vacancies in a housing pool of 26,546.

West Hartford was 27th on the Connecticut list. It had 1,711 vacancies with a total of 26,437 at the time the chart was compiled.

Windsor Locks, which barely qualified for eligibility was next at No. 28 with 354 vacancies in a pool of 5,611 housing units.

At No. 30 was Manchester. The Silk City had 713 vacancies with a total of 13,134 at the time the chart was compiled.

Wethersfield and Newington were 33rd and 35th, respectively. Wethersfield had 564 vacant homes out of 11,481 and Newington had 444 vacancies out of 12,810.

Tops in the state was Norwich in New London County with 3,103 vacancies and 19,224 total available housing units at the time the statistics were examined.

See the complete U.S. and Connecticut lists here.