Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport is the only location in Connecticut to rank the worst U.S. city to live in. It’s a relatively poor city, and the typical household here earns just $44,841 a year. Plus, more than one in every five residents of Bridgeport live below the poverty line.

Those who are living on the low end of the income spectrum can’t afford the city’s high cost of living. Goods and services in Bridgeport are 30.8 % more pricey than the average nationwide. In reality, the reason why this area is affected by poverty is that there is an extremely weak job market. There’s an average of 9.3 % of workers that have been unemployed in the last five years.