Greater New Haven
South Central Connecticut Planning Region
Town of Hamden

Hamden

Hamden is a suburb of the city of New Haven, . Quinnipiac University has a significant impact on the town. The town's nickname is "The Land of the Sleeping Giant". It had about 59,500 in 2025.
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  • Type: Town with 57,800 residents
  • Description: town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
  • Also known as: “Hamden, Connecticut”, “Hamden, CT”, and “Land of the Sleeping Giant”
  • Postal codes: 06514, 06517, and 06518
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hamden Middle School and Hamden High School.

School
Hamden is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The town's nickname is "The Land of the ". The town is part of the . The population was 61,169 at the 2020 census.

School
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is a four-year high school for grades 9 through 12. It is located at 2040 Dixwell Avenue in Hamden, Connecticut. It is part of the Hamden Public School System and is the only public high school within the town of Hamden.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Haven and Pines Bridge Historic District.

is a town in New Haven County, , United States on the outskirts of . The town is part of the .

Neighborhood
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The encompasses a historic industrial and commercial village in . Located just west of the town green and centered around the Broadway bridge over the , the village developed first as a commercial hub around a 17th-century bridge at the site, and then as a small industrial village in the 19th century.

Neighborhood
, originally spelled Centreville, is a in the east-central portion of the town of Hamden, . It is the location of Hamden Town Hall and other major town government buildings.

Hamden

Latitude
41.3836° or 41° 23′ 1″ north
Longitude
-72.902° or 72° 54′ 7″ west
Population
57,800
Elevation
102 feet (31 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US AEU
Open location code
87H993MX+C5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158863907
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4835654
Wiki­data ID
Q755271
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Hamden” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هامدن”
  • Armenian: “Համդեն”
  • Basque: “Hamden”
  • Catalan: “Hamden”
  • Cebuano: “Hamden”
  • Chechen: “Гамден”
  • Chinese: “Hamden”
  • Chinese: “哈姆登 (康涅狄格州)”
  • Chinese: “哈姆登”
  • Czech: “Hamden”
  • Danish: “Hamden”
  • Dutch: “Hamden”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هامدن”
  • French: “Hamden”
  • Galician: “Hamden”
  • German: “Hamden”
  • Greek: “Χάμντεν”
  • Haitian: “Hamden, Connecticut”
  • Haitian: “Hamden”
  • Hebrew: “האמדן”
  • Hungarian: “Hamden”
  • Irish: “Hamden”
  • Italian: “Hamden”
  • Japanese: “ハムデン”
  • Japanese: “ランド・オヴ・ザ・スリーピング・ジャイアント”
  • Japanese: “眠れる巨人の土地”
  • Kazakh: “Xamdén”
  • Kazakh: “Хамдэн”
  • Kazakh: “حامدەن”
  • Kirghiz: “Хамдэн”
  • Korean: “햄든”
  • Mazanderani: “هامدن”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hamden”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamden”
  • Norwegian: “Hamden”
  • Polish: “Hamden”
  • Portuguese: “Hamden”
  • Russian: “Хамден”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hamden”
  • Silesian: “Hamden”
  • Slovak: “Hamden”
  • Slovenian: “Hamden”
  • Spanish: “Hamden (Connecticut)”
  • Spanish: “Hamden”
  • Swedish: “Hamden, Connecticut”
  • Swedish: “Hamden”
  • Tatar: “Гамден”
  • Turkish: “Hamden, Connecticut”
  • Turkish: “Hamden”
  • Ukrainian: “Гамден”
  • Urdu: “ہیمڈن، کنیکٹیکٹ”
  • Urdu: “ہیمڈن”
  • Uzbek: “Hamden”
  • Uzbek: “Ҳамден”
  • Volapük: “Hamden”
  • Welsh: “Hamden, Connecticut”
  • Welsh: “Hamden”

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