Connecticut's Credit Card Trends: Third Highest In The U.S.

How can you keep up with the Jonses in Connecticut? Charge it. According to a new study, Connecticut has been ranked third for states with the most credit cards in 2025.

Get our free mobile app

According to WalletHub.com's States with the Most Credit Cards, there are only two other states in all of the US right now where you will find residents carrying more credit cards than us in Connecticut: New Hampshire and Mississippi. According to the study, the average American has more than five open lines of credit, which can boost your credit score if used reasonably, or ruin it if you overspend.

In order to determine which states have the most credit cards, WalletHub compared all 50 across two key dimensions: Number of Credit Cards, and Increase in Number of Credit Cards, and how each metric increased or decreased between Q3 2024 and Q3 2025,

Getty Images/Big Cheese Photo RF

WalletHub.com's research found that Connecticut residents on average opened 1.3 new credit cards in Q3 2025, the second-highest rate in the country. That average number increased by 8.6% over Q3 2024, ranking sixth nationally. The average Connecticut resident owns 5.6 credit cards, the seventh highest in the country, which ranks us as the state with the tenth-highest household credit card debt in the nation.

The Top 5 in WalletHub.com's study were New Hampshire, Mississippi, Connecticut, North Carolina, and Wyoming. New Jersey and Rhode Island were #6 and #7, while our most Northernly New England state ranked at the very bottom - Maine landed at #50, I'm guessing that they prefer to use cash in the Great White North.

Here Are the Five Sunrises That Took My Breath Away in 2025

I get to work at 5am Monday through Friday, we have a perfect view of the sunrise at the radio station. Every morning, I take in the sunrise, quite a few have taken me back. I went through my camera roll and found five in 2025 that were just absolutely incredible in their own way.

Gallery Credit: Photos by Large Dave

Darien’s Tokeneke Neighborhood: A Look at Its Famous Residents

Everyone knows Connecticut is packed with wealth, but some towns take it to another level. Greenwich and Darien, for example, act as ultra-wealthy enclaves inside the already rich cocoon of the state. And within those towns, there are neighborhoods that feel like even bigger bubbles of money. Tokeneke, in Darien, is one of those neighborhoods. According to a 2024 Forbes report, Tokeneke is the wealthiest neighborhood in all of Connecticut. It’s the kind of place where private peninsulas and islands stretch into Long Island Sound.

This wealthy enclave has also attracted its share of celebrities over the years. Here’s a look at five notable faces connected to Tokeneke.

Gallery Credit: Lou Milano

Step Inside Goshen's Thorncrest Farm & Milk House Chocolates

You may not know about the wonderful dairy products that are tucked away in the woods near the Litchfield/Goshen border, but you should. Before this past weekend I've never heard of Thorncrest Farm & Milk House Chocolates in Goshen, Connecticut, and now I will never forget it. Take a peek at what I found on Town Hill Road

Gallery Credit: Photos by Large Dave

Categories: Articles