Bridgeport

City Commute Profile

Bridgeport, CT

Where Bridgeport’s 58,173 resident workers go each day — 21.4% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is New York.

ConnecticutLODES 2023 data
42
Commute Score

42 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Bridgeport at a glance
Employed Residents
58,173
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
16.5mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
21.4%
Share working within the area
Work from home
7.6%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
New York
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Bridgeport proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Bridgeport commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Bridgeport

58,173 commutes, one dot at a time

Bridgeport

Where 58,173 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Bridgeport, by worker count.

1Bridgeport0.0 mi12,424
2New York50.3 mi3,012
3Norwalk12.9 mi2,842
4Stamford19.8 mi2,808
5Shelton8.8 mi2,417
6Milford city (balance)7.4 mi2,342
7New Haven16.5 mi1,797
8Hartford47.6 mi850

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Bridgeport.

1Bridgeport0.0 mi12,424
2Shelton8.8 mi1,937
3Milford city (balance)7.4 mi1,611
4Norwalk12.9 mi1,153
5West Haven13.3 mi992
6New Haven16.5 mi924
7Stamford19.8 mi789
8Waterbury26.7 mi740

Top industries

The sectors that employ Bridgeport’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance31.1%
EDEducational Services12.1%
RTRetail Trade7.3%
MFManufacturing7.0%
PAPublic Administration6.0%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services5.4%
AFAccommodation and Food Services5.4%
FIFinance and Insurance4.2%
COConstruction3.9%

Bridgeport city profile

Who lives in Bridgeport — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
149,153
Median age
36.7yrs
Median household income
$58,685
Median home value
$274,900
Median gross rent
$1,450/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
23.4%
Poverty rate
21.0%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Bridgeport

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

5 providers · 1 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps100%
5 Gbps100%
8 Gbps100%
See all internet providers in Bridgeport

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).