 While the district does take in some of Connecticut's wealthy coastal towns such as Guilford, most of the coastal towns in the 3rd are eminently middle-class, like Milford and Stratford.The district also notably encompasses the core area of Connecticut's large Italian-American community, from the area around Wooster Street in New Haven, to the neighborhood of Town Plot in Waterbury, Connecticut, to the many suburbs like Hamden, Milford, West Haven, East Haven, and North Haven.The area is also home to large numbers of Irish-American communities.