ZIP code 04643

ZIP 04643 is a very small community in Washington County, Maine, with 864 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #286 of 427 ranked by population — larger than 33% of them. The median age here is 47.1 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 04643 earn a median of $62,344 a year, 20.6% below 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 15.6% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 04643 is valued at $147,300, 51.5% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 77.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 864 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 04643 against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for ZIP 04643 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.

ZIP 04643 is tabulated inside Washington County, Maine, one of 31 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 04643 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 04643 reports a median household income of $62,344, 18% above the $52,950 county median, and 5% below the $65,739 typical ME ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $147,300, close to the county figure and 36% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at not published a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Maine charges 5.5% statewide, and no local sales tax is layered on top, so the state rate is the full amount collected in 04643.

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 04643 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.