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Independent city — not a county. Windham County has its own 5-digit FIPS code and appears as a county equivalent in federal datasets. It is administratively separate from any surrounding county.
09015 County FIPS Code

Windham County

Connecticut · County seat: Windham · Independent city (not a county)

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FIPS code 09015 is Windham County, Connecticut. The state FIPS code for Connecticut is 09. This code is used in Census Bureau, BLS, EPA, HUD, and USDA federal datasets to identify this county.

County FIPS

09015

State FIPS

09

CT

Land Area

513

sq miles

How This FIPS Code Works

09 015
09 = State FIPS (Connecticut)
015 = County FIPS

The 5-digit FIPS code 09015 is formed by combining the 2-digit state identifier 09 (Connecticut) with the 3-digit county identifier 015. Together they uniquely identify Windham County in every US federal dataset. No two counties share the same 5-digit FIPS code.

Adjacent Counties (5)

Counties that share a border with Windham County. Useful for regional analysis — these are the geographies you'd typically include when studying labor markets, commuting zones, or environmental spillovers around FIPS 09015.

Federal Datasets Using Code 09015

FIPS code 09015 appears as the county identifier in the following federal datasets. Analysts joining data across these sources use this code as the common geographic key.

Using FIPS Code 09015 in Code

Common patterns for querying federal datasets by this county's FIPS code. The leading zeros are significant — always treat FIPS codes as strings, not integers.

Census ACS API — Python 09015
import requests

url = "https://api.census.gov/data/2022/acs/acs5"
params = {
    "get":  "NAME,B19013_001E,B01003_001E",
    "for":  "county:015",
    "in":   "state:09",
    "key":  "YOUR_CENSUS_API_KEY",
}
r = requests.get(url, params=params)
data = r.json()  # [[header...], [Windham County, Connecticut, income, pop, ...]
SQL — filtering by county FIPS 09015
-- 5-digit combined FIPS (state + county)
SELECT * FROM your_table WHERE county_fips = '09015';

-- Some datasets store state and county separately
SELECT * FROM your_table
WHERE state_fips = '09'
  AND county_fips = '015';

-- ⚠ Never cast to integer — leading zeros are lost:
-- county_fips = 9015 is WRONG for this county
R — tidycensus 09015
library(tidycensus)

get_acs(
  geography = "county",
  variables = c(income = "B19013_001E", pop = "B01003_001E"),
  state     = "09",
  county    = "015",
  year      = 2022
)
Zero-padding reminder: FIPS codes must always be stored and compared as zero-padded strings. 09 (not 9) and 015 (not 15) — losing the leading zeros is one of the most common data-join bugs in federal datasets. Full guide →

ZIP Codes in Windham County

ZIP codes do not align perfectly with county boundaries — a single ZIP code can span multiple counties, and a county can contain parts of many ZIP codes. The ratios below (from the Census 2020 ZCTA relationship file) show the land area share of each ZCTA that falls within Windham County. Why FIPS ≠ ZIP →

ZIP Code % in county
06387 100.0%
06234 100.0%
06235 100.0%
06239 100.0%
06241 100.0%
06282 100.0%
06332 100.0%
06354 100.0%
06373 100.0%
06374 100.0%
06377 100.0%
06243 100.0%
06247 100.0%
06255 100.0%
06256 100.0%
06258 100.0%
06259 100.0%
06260 100.0%
06262 100.0%
06263 100.0%
06264 100.0%
06266 100.0%
06277 100.0%
06278 100.0%
06280 100.0%
06281 100.0%
06331 100.0%
06226 97.8%
06242 97.1%
06330 25.1%

Showing top 30 of 32 ZIP codes by residential address share.

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