East Hartford is a medium-sized town located in the state of Connecticut. With a population of 49,575 people and 14 constituent neighborhoods, East Hartford is the 19th largest community in Connecticut.

East Hartford is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, East Hartford is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in East Hartford who work in office and administrative support jobs (21.17%), sales jobs (10.33%), and management occupations (5.44%).

Also of interest is that East Hartford has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

East Hartford Information and Demographics

The citizens of East Hartford are slightly less educated than the national average of 14.96% for the average city or town: 13.36% of adults in East Hartford have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in East Hartford in 2000 was $21,763, which is low income relative to Connecticut, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $87,052 for a family of four.

East Hartford is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call East Hartford home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in East Hartford is White, followed by African-American. East Hartford also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.97% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in East Hartford include Italian, Irish, French, Polish, English, French Canadian, German, and Jamaican.

East Hartford also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 15.02%.

The most common language spoken in East Hartford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.