Boothbay Harbor, ME population, income and ZIP codes

Boothbay Harbor CDP is a very small community in Maine, with 948 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #109 of 155 ranked by population — larger than 29% of them. The median age here is 58.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Boothbay Harbor CDP earn a median of $57,679 a year, 26.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of the $58,992 median for the 106 Maine cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 21% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Boothbay Harbor CDP is valued at $339,300, 11.8% above the national figure and 53% above the $221,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $677 a month, 51.8% below the national figure, or roughly $8,124 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.1% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 74.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 58.5 puts Boothbay Harbor CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 948 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Boothbay Harbor CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.