Harwinton is a somewhat small town located in the state of Connecticut. With a population of 5,283 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Harwinton is the 124th largest community in Connecticut.

Harwinton is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Harwinton is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Harwinton who work in office and administrative support jobs (12.44%), sales jobs (11.88%), and management occupations (11.38%).

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

In addition, Harwinton is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Harwinton is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Harwinton really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Harwinton perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

One downside of living in Harwinton, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.76 minutes every day commuting to work.

Harwinton is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Harwinton isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 99.33% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Harwinton is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Harwinton Information and Demographics

The citizens of Harwinton are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 32.95% of adults in Harwinton have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Harwinton in 2000 was $32,137, which is upper middle income relative to Connecticut, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $128,548 for a family of four. However, Harwinton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Harwinton home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Harwinton is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Harwinton include Italian, Irish, German, English, Polish, French, and French Canadian.

The most common language spoken in Harwinton is English. Some people also speak Spanish.