CT Towns Graded From A+ To C-: How Did Your Community Do?

This is one heck of a report card. Niche has come out with its new 2017 rankings of the "Best Places to Live" in Connecticut, but it took a bit of a unique approach: The consumer rankings service assigned a grade, on an A+-to-D- scale, to almost every city and town and many neighborhoods around the Nutmeg State.

Twenty-nine towns received A+ grades. Only six communities received a grade less then a C, though several did receive an "incomplete" of sorts.

To arrive at the rankings, Niche.com took several factors into consideration, such as the quality of local schools, crime rates, housing trends, employment statistics and access to amenities.

Niche created a standardized score for each factor, and after weighting each factor, an overall score was calculated, which was again given a new standardized score.

Finally, Niche.com created a numerical ranking and assigned grades for each place. Click here to read more about the methodology.

Here are the Connecticut towns graded A+-C-. (SIGN UP: Get Patch's Daily Newsletter and Real Time News Alerts. Or, if you have an iPhone, download the free Patch app.)

A+

• Simsbury
• New Canaan
• Old Greenwich
• Weatogue
• Weston
• Avon
• Glastonbury
• Ridgefield
• Greenwich
• Woodbridge
• West Simsbury
• Darien
• West Hartford
• Riverside
• Cos Cob
• Wilton
• Westport
• Glastonbury Center
• Farmington
• Redding
• Fairfield
• Orange
• Southport
• South Windsor
• Madison
• Guilford
• Cheshire
• Granby
• Newtown

A

• Mansfield
• Mansfield Center
• Pemberwick
• Easton
• Canton
• Glenville
• Rocky Hill
• Trumbull
• Byram
• North Granby
• Bolton
• East Granby
• Salisbury
• Middlebury
• East Lyme
• Woodmont
• Salmon Brook
• Old Mystic
• Bethel
• Brookfield
• Newington
• Mystic
• Marlborough
• Essex
• Cannondale
• Windsor
• Monroe
• Groton Long Point
• Cromwell
• Southbury
• Bethany
• East Hampton
• Tariffville

A-

• Noank
• Terramuggus
• Wethersfield
• Wallingford
• Haddam
• Niantic
• Collinsville
• Stonington
• Andover
• Old Lyme
• Suffield
• Hebron
• Litchfield
• Middletown
• Hamden
• Groton
• North Haven
• Branford
• Lyme
• Lakefille
• Georgetown
• Milford
• Sufffield Depot
• Salem
• Southington
• Durham
• Ellington
• Cornwall
• Long Hill
• Stamford
• Ledyard
• Woodbury
• Old Saybrook
• Berlin
• Washington
• Lake Pocotopaug
• New Fairfield
• Pomfret
• Barkhamsted
• Tolland

B+

• Prospect
• Milford City
• Colchester
• Norwalk
• Canton Valley
• New Milford
• Waterford
• Westbrook
• Shelton
• Deep River
• Bloomfield
• Portland
• New Hartford
• North Stamford
• North Branford
• Columbia
• Goshen
• Burlington
• Woodstock
• Coventry
• Roxbury
• East Haddam
• Lebanon
• Kensington
• Willington
• Warren
• Newfield
• Manchester
• Poquonock Bridge
• Morris
• Westover
• Union
• Ashford
• Plainville
• Sherman
• Kent
• Clinton
• Chester
• Seymour
• New Preston
• Higganum
• West End
• Canaan Town
• Heritage Village
• Vernon
• Storrs
• Danbury
• Pawcatuck
• Middlefield
• Wolcott
• Turn of the River
• Bridgewater
• Eastford

B

• Stratford
• Somers
• Norfolk
• Harwinton
• Killingworth
• Shippan
• Saybrook Manor
• Windsor Locks
• Watertown
• Sharon
• Bethlehem
• Bristol
• East Windsor
• Oxford
• Springdale
• North Stonington
• Crystal Lake
• Enfield
• Colebrook
• South Coventry
• Hartland
• Falls Village
• Sherwood Manor
• Thomaston
• New Haven
• East Hartford
• Beacon Falls
• Sheldon-Charter Oak
• Montville
• South West
• Thompsonville
• Derby
• Glenbrook

B-

• Moodus
• hazardville
• Gales Ferry
• East Side
• Broad Brook
• Cove
• West Haven
• Southwood Acres
• Naugatuck
• Hampton
• Waterside
• West Side
• Oakville
• Voluntown
• Meriden
• Scotland
• Franklin
• Belltown
• Bozrah
• Thompson
• Winchester
• Torrington
• Preston
• Plymouth
• East Haven
• New London
• Coventry Lake
• South End
• Stafford
• Bantam
• Blue Hills
• Stafford Springs
• Lisbon
• Canterbury
• Plainfield
• Windham
• Terryville
• Griswold

C+

• Killingly
• Putnam
• Chaplin
• Danielson
• Rockville
• Asylum Hill
• New Britain
• North Canaan
• Sprague
• South Woodstock
• South Windham
• Norwich
• Brooklyn
• Winsted
• South Green
• Willimantic
• Quinebaug
• Canaan
• Waterbury
• South End
• Jewett City

C

• Behind The Rocks
• Bridgeport
• North Grosvenor Dale
• Ansonia
• Blue Hills
• Moosup
• Hartford
• East Brooklyn
• Barry Square
• South Meadows
• Parkville
• Wauregan
• Sterling
• South Meadows

C-

• North Meadows
• Frog Hollow
• Clay-Arsenal
• Baltic
• Upper Albany
• Northeast

Story by Tom Davis, Patch Staff

Photo by guilherme jofili via Flickr