Bethel, ME population, income and ZIP codes

Bethel CDP is a very small community in Maine, with 546 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #133 of 155 ranked by population — larger than 14% of them. The median age here is 39.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Bethel CDP earn a median of not published a year. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 17.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Bethel CDP is valued at $357,100, 17.7% above the national figure and 61% above the $221,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $864 a month, 38.5% below the national figure, or roughly $10,368 across a full year. 51.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 546 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Bethel CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Bethel CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.