It looks like more Connecticut residents are facing foreclosure this year. More lis pendens were filed statewide in the first quarter compared to a year ago.

There were a total of 7,128 lis pendens in the first three months of 2009, a 31 percent increase form the same period last year, according to The Warren Group. Lis pendens represent the first stage in the foreclosure process.

The Warren Group also tracked 1,396 foreclosures in Connecticut in the first quarter. That’s up 7.3 percent from last year’s first quarter when there were 1,301 foreclosures.

Which communities have had big jumps in foreclosures so far this year?

Norwalk’s foreclosure activity more than quadrupled, jumping from 6 to 29 in the first quarter of 2009.

In Stamford, the foreclosures increased 78 percent to 32 in the first three months of 2009 from 18 last year.  

Danbury’s foreclosures rose to 28 from 16, a 75 percent increase.

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