Danbury is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Connecticut. With a population of 86,967 people and 20 associated neighborhoods, Danbury is the seventh largest community in Connecticut.Danbury is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Danbury is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Danbury who work in sales jobs (10.91%), office and administrative support (10.47%), and maintenance occupations (8.61%). Also of interest is that Danbury has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. A relatively large number of people in Danbury telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.24% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. The education level of Danbury citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 34.04% of adults in Danbury have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Danbury in 2022 was $42,497, which is lower middle income relative to Connecticut, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $169,988 for a family of four. However, Danbury contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Danbury is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Danbury home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Danbury residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Danbury also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 31.73% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Danbury include Italian, Irish, German, Brazilian, and English. Danbury also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 32.68%. The most common language spoken in Danbury is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.
