Penobscot County, Maine

• White (non-Hispanic) 141,000 91.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,223 2.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,704 1.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,641 1.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 5,196 3.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 1,051 0.7%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 82 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 813 0.5%

• Under 18 27,249 17.6%
• 18–24 15,929 10.3%
• 25–44 38,574 24.9%
• 45–64 41,870 27.1%
• 65 and over 31,088 20.1%

Median household income

$66,158

90% interval $61,815–$70,501

−$10,214 vs ME · 10th of 16

Below poverty line

14.2%

90% interval 12.4%–16.0%

+3.6 pp vs ME · 4th of 16

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.5%

+0.24 pp vs. state

County GDP

$9.6B

9.72% of state

Avg. annual pay

$57,443

Establishments

5,234

• Education & health services 24,503 34.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 16,645 23.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 7,713 10.7%
• Professional & business services 7,192 10.0%
• Construction 4,151 5.8%
• Public administration 2,770 3.9%
• Financial activities 2,404 3.3%
• Other services 69 0.1%
• Information 58 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 91.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

70.5%

−3.8 pp vs ME · 14th of 16

Median gross rent

$1,041

−$98 vs ME · 7th of 16

Owner-occupied

46,010

Renter-occupied

19,211

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 68% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $76,773/yr) pays 2.9× the lowest (Information, $26,521/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 47,438 54.5%
• Democratic 37,945 43.6%
• Other / third-party 1,690 1.9%

• French, Haitian, or Cajun 1,920 1.3%
• Spanish 1,560 1.1%
• German or other West Germanic 415 0.3%
• Chinese 390 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 279 0.2%
• Tagalog 244 0.2%
• Vietnamese 105 0.1%
• Arabic 45 0.0%
• Korean 28 0.0%

Households

65,221

Family households

38,744

59.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

10,177

26.3% of families

Single-mother families

2,972

7.7% of families

Veterans

9,808

7.7% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 23,643 15.5%
• Evangelical Protestant 10,132 6.7%
• Mainline Protestant 6,822 4.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,556 2.3%
• Orthodox 126 0.1%

Health insured

93.7%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

6.3%

±0.7 pp

10th of 16

With a disability

18.2%

±0.8 pp

7th of 16

Bachelor's or higher

30.1%

±1.3 pp

−6.1 pp vs ME · 10th of 16

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.1%

90% interval 6.4%–7.8% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

Penobscot County Superior Court

Judges

1 (Maine Superior Court Justice, approximate primary/resident assignment per county branch. Maine has ~17 Justices statewide who rotate assignments among the 16 county branches under a unified bench (4 M.R.S. § 101), so any given trial day's working bench may differ from this count. Vintage 2026 courts.maine.gov roster.)

Court seats

Bangor

Traffic fatalities

24

18.83 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

21