Maine’s slim population growth over past 10 years driven almost entirely by southern counties

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.