ZIP code 04108

ZIP 04108 is a very small community in Cumberland County, Maine, with 788 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #297 of 427 ranked by population — larger than 30% of them. The median age here is 60 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 ZIP 04108 earn a median of $84,120 a year, 7.1% above the national figure of $78,538. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 15.7% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 04108 is valued at $488,400, 61% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,484 a month, 5.5% above the national figure, or roughly $17,808 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 86.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 60 puts ZIP 04108 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. Median income runs above the national figure while poverty also runs above it — a split distribution, not a uniformly comfortable place. Averages hide that; the two numbers together do not.

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.

ZIP 04108 is tabulated inside Cumberland County, Maine, one of 38 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 427 across Maine. Fewer than 2,500 people are counted here, so the ZIP behaves like a village delivery route rather than a neighbourhood. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 04108 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 04108 reports a median household income of $84,120, 4% below the $87,399 county median, and 28% above the $65,739 typical ME ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $488,400, 15% above the county figure and 112% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,484 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

A taxable purchase made inside 04108 carries 5.5% at the register, assembled from the Portland jurisdiction stack: the Maine state rate plus every county, municipal and special district levy that reaches this address. Because those district boundaries were drawn for schools, transit and hospital funding rather than for mail delivery, two addresses inside 04108 can legitimately fall under different totals — the rate shown here is the one that applies to the dominant jurisdiction.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 04108 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.