State scorecard
Connecticut in the US Political Rank
Every place Connecticut holds across our state rankings, in one scorecard. Economy, taxes, education, crime, healthcare, and more, each measured the same way for all 50 states and each linked to the full cited ranking.
#3
of 50 on States Ranked by Violent Crime Rate
#49
of 50 on States Ranked by Total Tax Burden
48.8%
Governor Ned Lamont performance score, rank 24 of 50
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state rankings that score Connecticut
Governor
Connecticut's governor, Ned Lamont (Democrat), holds performance rank 24 of 50 at 48.8% this week in the Governor Performance Rankings, scored on 263 metrics and updated every Monday.
| Ranking | Connecticut's place | Score |
|---|---|---|
| States Ranked by Violent Crime Rate136.0 violent crimes per 100,000, roughly 62 percent below the national rate (FBI Crime Data Explorer, 2024). | #3 of 50 | 136.0 |
| States Ranked by K-12 Education OutcomesRanked second through fifth in the nation in eighth grade reading in 2024 and appears in the top ten on both unadjusted and demographically adjusted rankings (Learning Policy Institute, 2025; Urban Institute, 2025). | #3 of 50 | 96.3 |
| States Ranked by Health Care OutcomesConsistently in the Commonwealth Fund's top ten, with life expectancy well above the national average of 78.4 years (Commonwealth Fund; CDC NCHS, 2023). | #6 of 50 | 93.0 |
| Voting With Their Feet: States Ranked by Migration and Population GrowthBack in the loss column as the pandemic-era inflow faded. Every Northeastern state except Delaware, Maine, and New Hampshire posted net domestic outflows in the year ending July 2025 (Census Bureau, Vintage 2025). | #41 of 50 | 38.5 |
| States Ranked by Business Climate: What the Major Raters Agree OnLong graded near the bottom of the Tax Foundation's index for stacked income, property, and estate taxes (Tax Foundation, 2026), with unemployment of 5.1 percent in May 2026, among the nation's highest (BLS, 2026). | #41 of 25 | 45.3 |
| States Ranked by Dependence on Federal MoneyLong among the least favorable balances of payments per person, as some of the nation's highest incomes generate outsized federal tax bills (Rockefeller Institute, 2025). | #43 of 50 | 49.2 |
| Ranking the 50 State Economies of 2026Unemployment of 5.1 percent in May 2026, well above the national 4.3 percent, and the largest year-over-year increase of any state at 1.3 percentage points (BLS, 2026). | #47 of 50 | 55.9 |
| States Ranked by Fiscal Health: Reserves, Pensions, and What They OweTied for last by Truth in Accounting's per-taxpayer measure: paying off the state's accumulated obligations would take $44,500 from every taxpayer (TIA, 2025). Decades of skipped pension payments did this, under governments of both parties. | #48 of 20 | 33.5 |
| States Ranked by Total Tax BurdenA 15.4 percent burden, second highest in America (Tax Foundation, 2022), with collections of $9,388 per capita (FY2023). High income, high property, and high estate taxes stack. | #49 of 50 | 34.2 |
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