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Place dossier plate
SheetME-SOUTH-WINDHAM-ME · South Windham, ME 1,047 pop · income 90th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around South Windham
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest South Windham on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Sanford · lowest
41,250
Sanford · lowest
41,250 median HH income
21.5% of the leader · rank #1
South Pasadena · near
128,105
South Pasadena · near
128,105 median HH income
66.8% of the leader · rank #2
South Windham · this city
128,108
South Windham · this city
128,108 median HH income
66.8% of the leader · rank #3
Waxhaw · near
128,115
Waxhaw · near
128,115 median HH income
66.8% of the leader · rank #4
Durhamville · near
128,125
Durhamville · near
128,125 median HH income
66.8% of the leader · rank #5
Fishers · near
128,141
Fishers · near
128,141 median HH income
66.9% of the leader · rank #6
Poquott · highest
191,667
Poquott · highest
191,667 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for South Windham on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 1,047.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, South Windham places in the 90th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
90th
percentile, household income
69th
percentile, home value
69th
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: South Windham, ME
Maine's South Windham is a small town, with 1,047 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $128,108 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 20.7%. South Windham's housing stock carries a median value of $325,700, and the median resident age is 41.6 years. About 33.0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 35.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Maine tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Maine scores 97.1 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,448 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Maine run around $273, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 56.7 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of South Windham's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For South Windham, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in South Windham?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 64.3%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
How far does income reach against housing in South Windham?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 20.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for South Windham?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
Within Maine, the closest population matches are Clinton (1,043 residents, $74,706 income); Winterport (1,043 residents, $72,708 income); Woodland (1,059 residents, $46,346 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Sanford, CO (1,047 residents); Highland, KS (1,047 residents); Brooklyn, MI (1,047 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Household income A
$128,108
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C+
33.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living C-
97.1 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Poverty rate F
20.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
South Windham profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 89/100 (A) · $128,108
Bachelor's+ share: 63/100 (C+) · 33.0%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Poverty rate: 12/100 (F) · 20.7%
How does South Windham compare to other US cities?
Where South Windham sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income90% higher than other cities
Home value69% pricier than other cities
Median rent69% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares South Windham against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Maine only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Maine-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places South Windham near the bottom of Maine's cities
Among the 154 Maine cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, South Windham ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares South Windham only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#6 of 145
96th percentile in Maine
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 154
0th percentile in Maine
Median Home Value
#41 of 151
73rd percentile in Maine
Poverty Rate
#13 of 154
92nd percentile in Maine
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#63 of 154
59th percentile in Maine
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Maine only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
90th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How South Windham's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$325,70031st percentilemore affordable than 31% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
South Windham's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,212 of 15,516
More affordable than 73% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,781 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.5×, South Windham sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,212 of 15,516 and #3,781 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$128,108South Windham, ME median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context South Windham, ME median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for South Windham, ME.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)33.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)20.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)35.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,047
Median Income
$128,108
Median Home Value
$325,700
Median Age
41.6
Poverty Rate
20.7%
Labor force participation
35.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
33.0%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
64.3%
Carpool
17.5%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
18.3%
Based on 361 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Maine statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $273
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Maine at $273 (electricity about $130 , water and sewer about $48 ).
These are Maine statewide averages, not a meter reading for South Windham. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Maine's BEA cost-of-living index is 97.1 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around South Windham is $1,448/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Maine statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 56.7 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Maine statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county South Windham sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How South Windham compares to similar-size Maine cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.