Greater Bridgeport Greater Bridgeport Greater Bridgeport is the metropolitan area centered on the city of Bridgeport in the U.S. state of Connecticut. The area is located in Southwestern Connecticut and consists of the city of Bridgeport and five surrounding towns – Easton, Fairfield, Monroe, Stratford, and Trumbull. The Bridgeport area has a population of more than 305,000. Greater Bridgeport is part of the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk metropolitan statistical area, which consists of all of Fairfield County. The estimated 2015 county population was 948,053. The smallest official definition of Greater Bridgeport is the area under the authority of the Greater Bridgeport Regional Planning Agency, which
Greater Bridgeport together as the "Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk New England City and Town Area". The area contains 25 towns and includes the Greater Bridgeport Region, the Gold Coast, the Lower Naugatuck Valley, and the additional outlying towns of Milford, Newtown, Redding, Ridgefield, Southbury, and Woodbridge. As of the 2000 census, the population of the NECTA was 892,283 A slightly smaller definition known as the "Southwest Service Delivery Area" consists of the Greater Bridgeport Region, the Lower Naugatuck Valley (including Oxford), the Gold Coast, and the town of Milford (20 towns). The MSA associated with Bridgeport is the "Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk MSA" and consists of the entirety