Bangor, Maine

Bangor population, 2020 to 2024

Bangor added 726 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.3%. In the latest year it moved by +46. Among 20 Maine places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 9th; the median place changed by +1.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maine has 18,252 people, so Bangor is 1.8 times that size.

Bangor covers 34.26 square miles of land and 0.34 of water, for 947 people per square mile of land. The median Maine place of 5,000+ has 548, so Bangor is denser than the typical town.

What county Bangor is in

All of Bangor's residents live in Penobscot County, which had 156,840 residents in 2024. Bangor holds 20.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bangor

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bangor by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 04401. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Bangor is

The Census internal point of Bangor is at 44.829600, -68.788800. Augusta, the capital, is 60.8 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lewiston, ME (38,772 people), 85.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Manchester, NH, 183.6 miles away.

Daylight in Bangor

At 44.83° N, Bangor gets about 15 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bangor

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maine, measured between internal points. The closest is Brewer, 4.1 miles away, with 9,629 people.