Maine cities and towns

This directory lists every place the US Census Bureau tabulates in Maine, ranked from the largest to the smallest by population. Incorporated cities, towns and villages appear alongside census-designated places (CDPs) — unincorporated communities that have no local government of their own but are counted separately because they have a recognised name and settled population. The suffix in each name ("city", "town", "village", "CDP") is the Census legal/statistical description, which is why you will see entries such as "Portland city".

The largest place in Maine is Portland city with 68,505 residents, and the 155 places on this page hold 665,716 people between them. Median household income across the listed places runs from $25,795 to $152,870, and median home values range from $64,200 to $805,200 — a spread that shows how much local housing markets diverge inside a single state.

Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates, which average survey responses over sixty months. That averaging is what makes small towns measurable at all, but it also means the numbers describe the period as a whole rather than today. Blank cells are estimates the Census suppressed because the local sample was too small to publish reliably. Select any place to open its full profile with affordability ratios, poverty and homeownership rates, and links to nearby communities of similar size.

Maine splits between a handful of population centres — 44% of its 665,716 counted residents live in the ten largest places — and a long tail of smaller communities. 1 place passes 50,000 residents, while 48 sit below a thousand. The median row holds just 1,665 residents. At that scale margins of error widen sharply, and a single large household or seasonal population can shift a median.

On housing, Maine tracks the national pattern closely: $213,950 median home value against $57,679 median income, a ratio of 3.7 versus 3.9 nationally. Median gross rent runs $901 including utilities, or about 19% of median household income annually. The statewide midpoint hides real variation, though — that is what the spread below is for.

The internal range is wide but not exceptional: $97,632 at the ninetieth percentile against $39,646 at the tenth, a 2.46× gap. At the edges, Falmouth Foreside CDP tops the list at $152,870 and Unity CDP anchors the bottom at $25,795.

Coverage is close to complete: only 10 of 155 rows show a blank where the Census suppressed an estimate for sample-size reasons. The rest are published five-year values, averaged over sixty months of responses.

How many places does Maine have? 155 appear in the current federal tabulation, counting incorporated cities, towns and villages together with census-designated places — unincorporated communities with no local government of their own. The legal suffix in each name is the Census description, which is how two communities can share a name.

Which Maine row should I compare mine against? Pick places within roughly the same population band. In a state this spread out, size drives the housing and income figures more than region does.

How current is this? Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year release published by the US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates. It reflects the full survey window rather than a single date, and it is the most recent vintage available for places this small.