{"id":942,"date":"2023-02-02T08:56:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T08:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=942"},"modified":"2026-07-31T19:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:16:55","slug":"new-haven-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/new-haven-county\/","title":{"rendered":"New Haven County, Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Haven County is a county in Connecticut, United States, on the shore of Long Island Sound
\nabout 35 miles southwest of Hartford. It had a population of 864,835 at the 2020 census and
\ncovers 605 square miles (1,567 km2) of land, centred near 41\u00b021\u2032N 72\u00b054\u2032W. Connecticut abolished
\ncounty government statewide in 1960, so New Haven County has no county seat and no county
\nadministration today — its postal code is 06510, New Haven’s downtown ZIP, and its
\ngoverning work is split between two regional councils of governments described below.<\/p>\n

New Haven is the county’s largest city and served as its seat before 1960; it remains the
\nregion’s economic and institutional hub. The county holds 7 chartered cities and 20 towns,
\nincluding one consolidated borough-town, and it runs on Eastern Time. Its FIPS code is 09009.<\/p>\n

Towns & Villages in New Haven County<\/h2>\n

All 27 of New Haven County’s municipalities are incorporated towns or cities —
\nConnecticut has no unincorporated territory and no census-designated places at the town level, so
\nevery entry below is a full municipal government. Seven are chartered as cities (New Haven,
\nWaterbury, Meriden, Milford, Ansonia, Derby and West Haven); the rest are towns, one of which,
\nNaugatuck, operates under a consolidated borough-town charter with a mayor and council.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Place<\/th>\nType<\/th>\nPop.<\/th>\nZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
New Haven<\/td>\nCity<\/td>\n134,023<\/td>\n06510<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Waterbury<\/td>\nCity<\/td>\n114,403<\/td>\n06702<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hamden<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n61,169<\/td>\n06514<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Meriden<\/td>\nCity<\/td>\n60,850<\/td>\n06450<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
West Haven<\/td>\nCity<\/td>\n55,584<\/td>\n06516<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Milford<\/td>\nCity<\/td>\n52,044<\/td>\n06460<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wallingford<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n44,396<\/td>\n06492<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Naugatuck<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n31,519<\/td>\n06770<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cheshire<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n28,733<\/td>\n06410<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Branford<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n28,273<\/td>\n06405<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
East Haven<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n27,923<\/td>\n06512<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
North Haven<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n24,253<\/td>\n06473<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Guilford<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n22,073<\/td>\n06437<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Southbury<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n19,879<\/td>\n06488<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ansonia<\/td>\nCity<\/td>\n18,918<\/td>\n06401<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Madison<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n17,691<\/td>\n06443<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seymour<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n16,748<\/td>\n06483<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wolcott<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n16,142<\/td>\n06716<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Orange<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n14,280<\/td>\n06477<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
North Branford<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n13,544<\/td>\n06471<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Derby<\/td>\nCity<\/td>\n12,325<\/td>\n06418<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oxford<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n12,706<\/td>\n06478<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prospect<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n9,401<\/td>\n06712<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Woodbridge<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n9,087<\/td>\n06525<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Middlebury<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n7,574<\/td>\n06762<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Beacon Falls<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n6,000<\/td>\n06403<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bethany<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n5,297<\/td>\n06524<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

North Haven and New Haven are separate, adjoining towns despite the near-identical name —
\nNorth Haven was set off from New Haven in 1786 and has never been part of the city. Hamden, a
\ntown rather than a chartered city, is more populous than four of the county’s seven cities
\n(Milford, Ansonia, Derby and West Haven). The Naugatuck River, not the town of Naugatuck alone,
\ngives its name to the whole valley corridor running through Naugatuck, Ansonia, Derby, Beacon
\nFalls and Waterbury.<\/p>\n

ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n