Lewiston, Maine

Lewiston population, 2020 to 2024

Lewiston added 1,662 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.5%. In the latest year it moved by +63. Among 20 Maine places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 4th; the median place changed by +1.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maine has 18,252 people, so Lewiston is 2.1 times that size.

Lewiston covers 34.15 square miles of land and 1.39 of water, for 1,135 people per square mile of land. The median Maine place of 5,000+ has 548, so Lewiston is denser than the typical town.

What county Lewiston is in

All of Lewiston's residents live in Androscoggin County, which had 115,272 residents in 2024. Lewiston holds 33.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lewiston

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lewiston by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 04240. 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 Lewiston is

The Census internal point of Lewiston is at 44.089500, -70.172100. Augusta, the capital, is 24.5 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Portland, ME (69,568 people), 31.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Manchester, NH, 99.4 miles away.

Daylight in Lewiston

At 44.09° N, Lewiston gets about 15 h 30 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 53 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lewiston

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maine, measured between internal points. The closest is Auburn, 3.9 miles away, with 25,200 people.