• 7.7% of New Haven County's 65-and-older population, roughly 8,500 individuals, live below the poverty line.

• The US Department of Housing and Urban Development subsidizes over 4,500 senior housing units in New Haven.

• Currently, there is a substantial need for elderly residential care in New Haven.

In the Dixwell Neighborhood:

• Approximately 5,011 individuals live in 1,906 housing units in the census tract surrounding the present Hannah Gray Home on Dixwell Avenue.

• 259 of these households are headed by individuals over 65 years of age.

• 202 other elderly individuals live in households which they do not own.