Posts Tagged ‘Southport’

Trending: Where the Horses Live

Saturday, May 4, 2013 by:Maggie Gordon
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Happy Derby Day!

Every year at this time, the nation watches as America’s elite race horses and jockeys gather at Churchill Downs in Kentucky for the annual running of the Kentucky Derby. But you don’t have to live in Kentucky to be a horse enthusiast — there are hundreds of horse farms right here in Connecticut.

We checked out the USDA’s most recent Census, which counted up the number of farms with horses and ponies in every ZIP code across Connecticut to see where the horses play. Truth be told, there aren’t all that many towns in Southwestern Connecticut with horse farms in the count (the heaviest populated horse town is Lebanon, Conn., upstate, where there are a total of 35 horse farms in the 06249 ZIP code), but we did find 14 ZIPs in our area with horse farms on the count. Check out the slideshow to see where you’re most likely to run into horseplay in Southwestern Connecticut.

Crazy commutes?

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 by:Maggie Gordon
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Commuters exit the Metro-North train out of Grand Central Terminal in New York City as it makes a stop at 5:04 p.m. in Greenwich, Conn., Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. Crowded commuter trains are a sign that people have returned to work following the Blizzard of 2013 that paralyzed transportation in the region.

A new report released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau found that the average commute time for Fairfield County workers in 2011 was 28.3 minutes, about three minutes longer than the national average of 25.5 minutes. But in pockets of the area, commute times stretch even longer. For instance, Weston workers have a longer commute than employees living in any other town in the area, with an average of 41.4 minutes en route to work.

We’re slicing and dicing data about commutes from all parts of Southwestern Connecticut, and we’re hoping to speak to locals from every corner of our region about what commutes are like. Join the conversation here.

Vintage postcards of life along the shore in Southwestern Connecticut

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 by:Maggie Gordon
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This week’s Trending column examines the changes in desires and designs for homeowners along Southwestern Connecticut’s coastlines. Here’s a peek at what life along the shore looked like in years past.

Have any old postcards you’d like to add to the mix? Email them to maggie.gordon@scni.com. We’d love to include them.

What’s in a ZIP code?

Tuesday, February 19, 2013 by:Maggie Gordon
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On Thursday, we’ll run a complete list of each of Southwestern Connecticut’s 53 ZIP codes, ranking them from wealthiest to least wealthy here on the Trending blog and in print in the Hearst Connecticut’s four daily newspapers (Greenwich Time, Stamford Advocate, Danbury News-Times and Connecticut Post). But why wait until then to begin having a bit of fun with the data we’ve sifted?

Which ZIP code do you think will have the distinction of being named the wealthiest in Southwestern Connecticut, based on median household income numbers provided by the U.S. Census Bureau?

Here’s a peek at some of the front runners. Let us know which neighborhood you think will end up on top in the poll beneath the slideshow.

Which ZIP do you think will be the wealthiest?

Which ZIP code do you think has the highest median income in Southwestern Connecticut?

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