The Community Health Assessment was a city-wide effort conducted in 2005 to get a snapshot of the health status of Bridgeport residents. Two surveys were conducted: a phone survey that got responses from 1204 residents, and a companion agency survey that was conducted in-person at health and human service agencies and queried 320 residents.

These two surveys captured two different “slices” of the Bridgeport population, as reflected in the demographics of each group. The phone survey respondents as a group were much older and more predominantly white. The agency respondents as a group were less educated and more likely to have a household income of less than $20,000 per year.

Ethnic differences showed more Black/African Americans and respondents of Caribbean descent among the agency respondents. Women were over-represented in both groups, but more so among agency respondents. Highlights from the two surveys are discussed below. Unless specifically referred to as from the “agency survey”, response results refer to the phone survey. The differences between the two survey populations have to be kept in mind when interpreting the results below.

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