Greater Bridgeport
Stamford-Bridgeport-Norwalk is a metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Connecticut. The area is located in Southwestern Connecticut. In its most conservative form the area consists of the city of Bridgeport and five surrounding towns—Easton, Fairfield, Monroe, Stratford, and Trumbull. This definition of the Stamford area has a population of more than 305,000 and is within the Stamford -Bridgeport-Norwalk-Danbury metropolitan statistical area (Stamford metropolitan area), which consists of all of Fairfield County, Connecticut. The estimated 2015 county population was 948,053. The area is numbered as part of the New York-Newark Combined Statistical Area NY-NJ-CT-PA by the United States Census Bureau.
Southwestern Connecticut | |
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Metropolitan statistical area | |
| Stamford-Bridgeport-Norwalk-Danbury Metropolitan Statistical Area | |
Downtown Bridgeport, the region's largest city, seen from I-95 | |
Location of Fairfield County in Connecticut | |
| Country | United States |
| State(s) | Connecticut |
| Largest city | Bridgeport |
| Other cities | - Stamford - Norwalk - Danbury |
| Area | |
| • Total | 625.8 sq mi (1,621 km2) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 948,053 |
| • Rank | 57th in the U.S. |
| • Density | 1,514.9/sq mi (584.9/km2) |
| GDP | |
| • MSA | $104.368 billion (2022) |
The combined metropolitan area is the fourth largest of New England (behind the Boston, Providence, and Hartford areas). The area includes Connecticut's two largest cities: Bridgeport and Stamford. As of 2022 the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk-Danbury area has been split into two different Connecticut regions (the state equivalent to counties), the Western Connecticut region (including Stamford, Norwalk and Danbury), and Metropolitan Connecticut (MetroCOG), consisting of the five towns of Greater Bridgeport. The region is home to one of the largest concentration of corporate headquarters in the nation.