Eviction filings in Hartford, CT (Hartford County) fell below average when a state-wide eviction moratorium was instituted in April 2020. These eviction protections expired on June 30, 2021.
More detail on eviction protections in Connecticut can be found on the COVID-19 Housing Policy Scorecard.
* Filings in the last week may be undercounted as a result of processing delays. These counts will be revised in the following week.
Eviction filings in Hartford were near historical averages in January, February, and March of 2020.1 Filings dropped precipitously in April 2020.
Hartford is made up of 223 census tracts. In each of those tracts, we map the number of eviction filings over the last four weeks. If you toggle below you can see these numbers as eviction filing rates—the number of eviction filings divided by the number of renter households in the area—or compared to the typical number of filings in the average year.1 2
American Community Survey (ACS) data allow us to categorize neighborhoods by their racial/ethnic majority: White, Black, Latinx, or Other/None.
When you toggle the figure to see data relative to average, comparisons are being drawn—within the same set of neighborhoods defined by racial/ethnic majority—between filings over the last six months and average filings in 2017–2019.1
