Connecticut personal income grew for the first time in two years, rising 2.9 percent in 2010, federal data shows. Connecticut also remains No. 1 in per capita income.
Connecticut residents’ income from all sources rose to $200.2 billion last year, up from $194.6 billion in 2009, the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), an arm of the Census Bureau, said Wednesday.
The state’s personal income growth rate was just under the nation’s overall 3 percent growth rate last year.
The state’s personal income peaked in 2008 at $200.4 billion, the BEA said.
The rest of New England also followed suit with personal income increases, the agency said.
Meantime, Connecticut’s $56,001 per capita was just ahead of No. 2 Massachusetts, at $51,552. The nation’s 2010 per capita income was $40,584, the government said.
New Hampshire is No. 9, at $44,084; Rhode Island was No. 15, at $42,579; No. 19 Vermont, at $40,283; and No. 29 Maine, at $37,300.
