County Washington County, Maine - Population, Income & Demographics

The median income of households in Washington County, Maine was $52,237. An estimated 6% of households had income below $10,000 a year and 3.8% had income of $200,000 or more.

An estimated 64.9% of households received earnings. An estimated 45.1% of households received Social Security and an estimated 26.6 % of households received retirement income other than Social Security. The average income from Social Security was $20,498. These income sources are not mutually exclusive; that is, some households received income from more than one source.

In 2019-2023, 17.8 % of people were in poverty. An estimated 20.1% of children under 18 were below the poverty level, compared with 15.1% of people 65 years old and over. An estimated 18.3% of people 18 to 64 years were below the poverty level.

In 2019-2023, 19.7 % of households received SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). An estimated 40.6% of households that received SNAP had children under 18, and 41.7% of households that received SNAP had one or more people 60 years and over. An estimated 24.6% of all households receiving SNAP were families with a female householder and no spouse present.

Among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in Washington County, Maine in 2019-2023, 90.2% had health insurance coverage and 9.8% did not have health insurance coverage. Private coverage was 55.2% and public coverage was 54.8%, respectively. The percentage of children under the age of 19 with no health insurance coverage was 8.1%.

In 2019-2023, Washington County, Maine had a total population of 31,261 - 15,858 (50.7%) females and 15,403 (49.3%) males. The median age was 48.6 years. An estimated 18.7% of the population was under 18 years, 25% was 19 to 44 years, 28.2% was 45 to 64 years, and 25.8 % was 65 years and older.

In 2019-2023, there were 13,989 households in Washington County, Maine. The average household size was 2.16 people.

Married-couple households made up 44.4% of the households in Washington County, Maine while cohabiting couple households made up 10.9% of households. Female householders with no spouse or partner present were 26.5% of all households, while 18.3% of households had male householders with no spouse or partner present. Some households had one person, as 14.5% of households were male householders living alone, and 17.9% were female householders living alone, for a total of 32.4% of all households.

In Washington County, Maine, 24.7% of all households had one or more people under the age of 18; 41.8% of all households had one or more people 65 years and over.

In 2019-2023, an estimated 96.7% of the people living in Washington County, Maine were U.S. natives. 63.5% of the Washington County, Maine population were living in the state where they were born.

Approximately 3.3% of Washington County, Maine residents in 2019-2023 were foreign-born. 58.4% of foreign-born were naturalized U.S. citizens and an estimated 85.7 % entered the country before the year 2010.

Foreign-born residents of Washington County, Maine come from different parts of the world. The bar graph below displays the percentage of foreign-born from each world region of birth in 2019-2023 for Washington County, Maine.

Among people at least five years old living in Washington County, Maine in 2019-2023, 5.4 % spoke a language other than English at home. Spanish was spoken by 1.6% of people at least five years old; 0.8% reported that they did not speak English "very well."

In 2019-2023, 87.7 % of the people at least one year old living in Washington County, Maine were living in the same house one year earlier.

In 2019-2023, 91.2 % of people 25 years and over had at least graduated from high school and 24.9% had a bachelor's degree or higher. An estimated 8.9% did not complete high school.

The total school enrollment in Washington County, Maine was 5,986 in 2019-2023. Nursery school enrollment was 268 and kindergarten through 12th grade enrollment was 4,442. College or graduate school enrollment was 1,276.

In Washington County, Maine, among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in 2019-2023, 23.4 % reported a disability. The likelihood of having a disability varied by age - from 11.2% of people under 18 years old, to 20.1% of people 18 to 64 years old, and to 39.7% of those 65 and over.

In Washington County, Maine, 48.9 % of the population 16 and over were employed; 47.5% were not currently in the labor force.

An estimated 65.1% of the people employed were private wage and salary workers; 19.6% were federal, state, or local government workers; and 14.9 % were self-employed in their own (not incorporated) business.

In 2019-2023, the civilian employed population 16 years and older in Washington County, Maine worked in the following industries:

An estimated 75.2% of Washington County, Maine workers drove to work alone in 2019-2023, and 10.4% carpooled. Among those who commuted to work, it took them on average 21.6 minutes to get to work.

In 2019-2023, Washington County, Maine had a total of 21,703 housing units. Of these housing units, 81.3% were single-family houses either not attached to any other structure or attached to one or more structures (commonly referred to as "townhouses" or "row houses"). 7.6% of the housing units were located in multi-unit structures, or those buildings that contained two or more apartments. 11% were mobile homes, while any remaining housing units were classified as "other," which included boats, recreational vehicles, vans, etc.

6.3% of the housing inventory was comprised of houses built since 2010, while 28.1% of the houses were first built in 1939 or earlier. The median number of rooms in all housing units in Washington County, Maine was 5.3 rooms, and of these housing units 53.7% had three or more bedrooms.

In 2019-2023, Washington County, Maine had 13,989 housing units that were occupied or had people living in them, while the remaining 7,714 were vacant. Of the occupied housing units, the percentage of these houses occupied by owners (also known as the homeownership rate) was 78.1% while renters occupied 21.9%. The average household size of owner-occupied houses was 2.23 and in renter-occupied houses it was 1.94.

7.1% of householders of these occupied houses had moved into their house since 2021, while 16.2% moved into their house in 1989 or earlier. Households without a vehicle available for personal use comprised 7% and another 18.8% had three or more vehicles available for use.

The following chart provides the primary fuel used to heat houses in Washington County, Maine:

In 2019-2023, the median property value for owner-occupied houses in Washington County, Maine was $147,100.

Of the owner-occupied households, 41.7 % had a mortgage. 58.3% owned their houses "free and clear," that is without a primary mortgage or loan on the house. The median monthly housing costs for owners with a mortgage was $1,226 and for owners without a mortgage it was $498.

For renter-occupied houses, the median gross rent for Washington County, Maine was $768. Gross rent includes the monthly contract rent and any monthly payments made for electricity, gas, water and sewer, and any other fuels to heat the house.