ZIP code 04781

ZIP 04781 is a very small community in Aroostook County, Maine, with 573 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #317 of 427 ranked by population — larger than 25% of them. The median age here is 51.7 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 04781 earn a median of $54,792 a year, 30.2% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 3% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 04781 is valued at $197,900, 34.8% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $932 a month, 33.7% below the national figure, or roughly $11,184 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.4% 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 3.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier 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 51.7 puts ZIP 04781 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 573 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 04781 against its county rather than against national figures.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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 04781 is tabulated inside Aroostook County, Maine, one of 41 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 04781 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 04781 reports a median household income of $54,792, 3% above the $53,125 county median, and 17% below the $65,739 typical ME ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $197,900, 61% above the county figure and 14% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $932 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 04781.

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 04781 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.