Bath, Maine

Bath population, 2020 to 2024

Bath added 52 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by -43. Among 20 Maine places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 16th; the median place changed by +1.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maine has 18,252 people, so Bath is 48% of it.

Bath covers 9.12 square miles of land and 4.10 of water, for 967 people per square mile of land. The median Maine place of 5,000+ has 548, so Bath is denser than the typical town.

What county Bath is in

All of Bath's residents live in Sagadahoc County, which had 37,582 residents in 2024. Bath holds 23.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bath

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bath by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 04530. 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 Bath is

The Census internal point of Bath is at 43.932500, -69.847200. Augusta, the capital, is 26.1 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lewiston, ME (38,772 people), 19.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Manchester, NH, 103.5 miles away.

Daylight in Bath

At 43.93° N, Bath gets about 15 h 29 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 35 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bath

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maine, measured between internal points. The closest is Gardiner, 18.3 miles away, with 6,160 people.