Bath vs Bowdoinham

A side-by-side comparison of Bath and Bowdoinham: population, income, housing, and more.

Bath and Bowdoinham are places in Maine. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Bath has the higher population (8,801 vs 768 in Bowdoinham). Bowdoinham has the higher median home value ($352,900 vs $285,400 in Bath). Since 2019, Bath's population has grown faster (+5.8% vs -2.5%).

Population, income & housing

	Bath	Bowdoinham
Population	8,801	768
Median age	46.4 yrs	28.6 yrs
Median household income	$65,565	—
Median home value	$285,400	$352,900
Median gross rent	$967	—
Housing units	4,767	339
Homeownership rate	64.6%	70.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher	39.6%	51.5%
Unemployment rate	5.9%	1.4%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Bath	Bowdoinham
Population	8,319 → 8,801 (+5.8%)	788 → 768 (-2.5%)
Median household income	$48,252 → $65,565 (+35.9%)	$85,714 → $88,590 (+3.4%)
Median home value	$175,700 → $285,400 (+62.4%)	$227,900 → $352,900 (+54.8%)
Median gross rent	$862 → $967 (+12.2%)	—

Bath

Population

8,3198,801

Median household income

$48,252$65,565

Median home value

$175,700$285,400

Median gross rent

$862$967

Bowdoinham

Population

788768

Median household income

$85,714$88,590

Median home value

$227,900$352,900

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Bath	Bowdoinham
Under 5	2.0%	1.8%
5 to 17	13.2%	42.6%
18 to 24	9.7%	0.0%
25 to 34	10.8%	9.0%
35 to 44	12.5%	18.0%
45 to 54	13.0%	6.1%
55 to 64	13.2%	6.6%
65 to 74	15.6%	13.7%
75 and over	10.1%	2.2%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Bath	Bowdoinham
White (non-Hispanic)	94.7%	76.6%
Black or African American	0.5%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.1%	0.0%
Asian	0.6%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.8%	0.0%
Two or more races	3.5%	23.4%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Bath	Bowdoinham
No high school diploma	6.4%	0.0%
High school graduate	23.4%	32.8%
Some college or associate's	30.6%	15.7%
Bachelor's degree	23.9%	29.0%
Graduate or professional degree	15.7%	22.5%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Bath	Bowdoinham
Drove alone	67.0%	84.7%
Carpooled	9.1%	7.9%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	9.9%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.3%	0.0%
Worked from home	13.4%	7.4%
Other means	0.3%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Bath	Bowdoinham
1-unit, detached	58.0%	66.4%
1-unit, attached	3.3%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	16.7%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	16.9%	2.7%
20 or more units	3.8%	20.4%
Mobile home & other	1.3%	10.6%

Poverty & households

	Bath	Bowdoinham
Poverty rate	14.6%	24.0%
Average household size	2.02	2.60
Mean commute (minutes)	21	28
Median year structure built	1938	1971