State Aid Dependence — All 169 Connecticut Towns

How much of each town's budget the state pays for, and how that reshapes every other ranking.

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Read this before ranking towns: state aid is the third leg of every town budget, alongside property tax and fees. Connecticut's largest grants are driven by formulas that weigh property wealth and need, so aid runs highest where the local tax base is smallest — that is the design, not an anomaly. This page exists mostly as context for the others: a town can rank low on tax rate or high on spending because the state, not local taxpayers, funds a large share of its budget. High dependence is not a criticism and low dependence is not an achievement; both mostly restate the size of the local tax base.
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Lowest state share
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Statewide median
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Highest state share

State revenue as a share of the adopted budget

Budgeted revenue from the State of Connecticut divided by each town's total adopted revenue, —. Sorted lowest to highest.

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Source: CT OPM adopted municipal budgets (pcg4-s5rc), fields revenues_from_state_of_ct and total_revenue, via ct_adopted_budgets.json. These are the amounts towns budgeted to receive, not audited receipts; federal revenue is a separate field and is not included here.

The full table

All towns with the state share, the dollar amount, and state aid per resident.

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How this ranking is made

State share = budgeted revenues from the State of Connecticut ÷ total budgeted revenue, from each town's adopted budget as filed with OPM. The biggest component for most towns is the Education Cost Sharing grant; the rest is a bundle of smaller statutory grants.

  • Adopted, not received: towns budget aid conservatively or optimistically; actual receipts differ.
  • Regional-district members can look artificially low: much of their education aid flows to the district, never appearing in the town's own revenue at all.
  • Per-resident amounts divide by an ACS 5-year population estimate, with its margin of error.

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