Hancock County
Seat
Ellsworth
FIPS
23009
Places
41towns and cities
Rivers
1on file
Lakes
25largest 25
Federal money
$589.3 million2026-10-12
Weather alerts
02026-10-12 · None
Density
36 per sq mi2026-01-01
Land
1,587 sq mi2026-01-01
Water
758 sq mi2026-01-01
Income
$72,7442024-12-31
EPA sites
238 places2026-10-12
Climate reporters
3 places2023-12-31
Chemical reporters
9 places2026-10-12
Housing
40,765 units2024-12-31
Median age
49 years2024-12-31
What these figures mean
- Federal money. Federal awards whose work was listed in this county for fiscal year 2025.
- Weather alerts. Flood, wind, winter storm, and similar warnings for Maine from the weather service. Zero means none were in effect when we last checked.
- Density. People divided by land square miles. Downtown Portland is dense; an unorganized township is not.
- Land. Square miles of land, from the Census Gazetteer. Water is counted separately.
- Income. American Community Survey 5-year estimate. Half of households earn more, half earn less.
- EPA sites. Sites EPA tracks for air, water, or hazardous waste rules. A count is not a violation score.
- Climate reporters. Factories, power plants, and landfills large enough that EPA makes them report greenhouse gases each year. Not every shop or farm — only the big ones. Latest complete year is 2023.
- Chemical reporters. Workplaces that use certain chemicals and file a yearly Toxics Release Inventory form. A count is not the same as “this county is dirty.” It means those sites exist and have not been marked closed.
- Housing. Houses, apartments, and other units, occupied or empty. ACS 5-year.
- Median age. Half the people are older than this age, half younger. ACS 5-year.
Farms
4142022 Census
Farm acres
60,238land in farms
Potatoes
736 farms
Blueberries
6,304139 farms · acres
Maple
895 farms · gallons
Milk
$0no farms reported
Lobster
22,154,2692025 preliminary · pounds
Landed value
$130,838,492$157,087,835 in 2024
2025
22.2m
2024
25.6m
2023
29.9m
2022
30.6m
2021
32.5m
2020
30.9m
2019
31.6m
2018
39.7m
2017
38.5m
2016
45.0m
Places
PlacePop
Lakes
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Rivers
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