Caribou, Maine

Caribou population, 2020 to 2024

Caribou lost 75 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.0%. In the latest year it moved by -52. Among 20 Maine places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 20th; the median place changed by +1.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maine has 18,252 people, so Caribou is 40% of it.

Caribou covers 79.29 square miles of land and 0.80 of water, for 92 people per square mile of land. The median Maine place of 5,000+ has 548, so Caribou is less dense than the typical town.

What county Caribou is in

All of Caribou's residents live in Aroostook County, which had 66,776 residents in 2024. Caribou holds 11.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Caribou

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Caribou by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 04736. 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 Caribou is

The Census internal point of Caribou is at 46.836500, -67.936100. Augusta, the capital, is 196.2 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Presque Isle, ME (8,728 people), 10.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Manchester, NH, 316.6 miles away.

Daylight in Caribou

At 46.84° N, Caribou gets about 15 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 32 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Caribou

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maine, measured between internal points. The closest is Presque Isle, 10.6 miles away, with 8,728 people.