An estimated 10.6% of Connecticut residents lived in poverty in 2025, according to an October analysis by Connecticut Voices for Children.
The nonprofit research and advocacy group estimates that 385,500 residents, including 91,400 children, were living in poverty. Its estimated child poverty rate was 12.5%.
The report uses the Supplemental Poverty Measure, which accounts for taxes, noncash benefits and necessary expenses. That differs from the official poverty measure, which relies on cash income. The group calculated annual Connecticut estimates from U.S. Census Bureau survey data.
By that supplemental measure, Connecticut's poverty rate was 9.3% in 2019 and fell to 7% in 2021, when expanded pandemic benefits were in place. The report attributes much of the subsequent increase to the expiration of that support.
Three-year averages, which smooth annual sampling variation, also increased: 10.2% for 2023 through 2025, compared with 8.9% for 2019 through 2021. Because the state survey sample is small, some differences between the Connecticut estimates could reflect sampling variation rather than a real change, the report cautions.
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Poverty and Public Benefits in the U.S. and Connecticut, 2019-2025