BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August x, 2021
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau show Maine’s overall population grew by 2.6 percent — just shy of 34,000 people — over the past decade. But the changes were uneven, with Cumberland and York counties adding more than 36,000 people combined. Aroostook County lost more than 4,700 people alone, while Washington, Franklin, Piscataquis, Somerset, Penobscot and Oxford counties saw smaller losses.