State or territory · Census 2020–2024
Median rent and rent burden in Maine
- Median monthly gross rent
- $1,139 ± $13 margin
- Rent burden · 30% or more
- 48.4% ± 1.2 percentage points
- Severe burden · 50% or more
- 21.8% ± 1.1 percentage points
How much income would keep this rent at 30%?
The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $45,560. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.
Compare with broader areas
| Area | Median gross rent ± margin | Rent burden | Severe burden |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | $1,139 ± $13 | 48.4% | 21.8% |
| United States | $1,413 ± $2 | 51.1% | 25.9% |
Browse counties in Maine
- Androscoggin County$1,010 median gross rent · 51.4% rent burden
- Aroostook County$784 median gross rent · 46.6% rent burden
- Cumberland County$1,589 median gross rent · 49.9% rent burden
- Franklin County$802 median gross rent · 44.4% rent burden
- Hancock County$1,061 median gross rent · 50.9% rent burden
- Kennebec County$992 median gross rent · 48.8% rent burden
- Knox County$1,165 median gross rent · 50% rent burden
- Lincoln County$1,055 median gross rent · 35.9% rent burden
- Oxford County$836 median gross rent · 54.2% rent burden
- Penobscot County$1,041 median gross rent · 50.4% rent burden
- Piscataquis County$837 median gross rent · 37.9% rent burden
- Sagadahoc County$1,098 median gross rent · 48% rent burden
- Somerset County$910 median gross rent · 43.7% rent burden
- Waldo County$1,021 median gross rent · 42% rent burden
- Washington County$783 median gross rent · 52.2% rent burden
- York County$1,339 median gross rent · 44.3% rent burden
Data and definitions
How to read the estimates
The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.
- Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
- Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
- Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
- ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.
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