States · Connecticut
Connecticut: every planning region, ranked.
The State Screen scores all 9 planning regions in Connecticut from 0 to 100 against each other on the four things a homestead can't do without: water, privacy, hazard exposure and access. Nothing is screened out.
Top five planning regions
- Northwest Hills Planning Region
- Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region
- Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region
- Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region
- Capitol Planning Region
In order, without their scores. Every planning region's score, its four sub-scores and the raw numbers behind them are in the free map.
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What the map says about Connecticut
Rain is rarely the problem in Connecticut: the median planning region gets 50 inches a year, and the wettest 52.
Across Connecticut, the typical well is 92 ft deep. In 89% of its planning regions the median well is 150 ft or shallower; in 0% it is 400 ft or more.
The hazard that scores worst most often is hurricane, in every planning region.
Every planning region in Connecticut sits inside a metro commuting ring, and the median one is 4 miles from a town of 5,000.
These are planning regions, not parcels. A good score says the region has the water, the quiet and the hazard profile; it says nothing about a particular piece of land's flood zone, access or water source.
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