Census-designated place · Kennebec County, Maine

Winslow, Maine

Winslow is a census-designated place in Kennebec County, Maine, part of the Augusta-Waterville, ME metro area. It has 5,873 residents. Winslow, Maine has a quality-of-life score of 70 out of 100 (high), ranking #4,620 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Maine it ranks #53 of 104 cities and towns. It ranks best on high school diploma or higher (high), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (low) and mental health providers (high). It ranks worst on depression (high), drought exposure (high) and frequent mental distress (high).

70High

Quality-of-life score: #4,620 of 15,651 cities and towns
Maine: #53 of 104 in ME
Population: 5,873 (2020-2024)
Land area: 6 mi²
Density: 979.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 2386480

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety72#4,380/15,637
Economy40#9,417/15,631
Housing35#9,707/14,977
Health25#11,629/15,609
Healthcare82#2,750/15,650
Environment98#291/15,453
Education71#4,601/15,649
Infrastructure61#6,092/15,650
Community80#3,119/15,651
Leisure & amenities50#7,849/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Winslow, Maine ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Kennebec County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

High school diploma or higher · high93.3%
98/100Maine 94.8%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low5.2 µg/m³
96/100Maine 4.9 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyKennebec County value
Mental health providers · high602 /100k
93/100Maine 586 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteKennebec County value
Violent crime rate · low79 /100k
91/100Maine 93 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationKennebec County value
Hot days · low4 days
90/100Maine 2 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationKennebec County value
Median Air Quality Index · low34
88/100Maine 352025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyKennebec County value

Weaknesses

Depression · high30.5%
3/100Maine 28.4%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Drought exposure · high80%
12/100Maine 75%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAKennebec County value
Frequent mental distress · high20.9%
12/100Maine 20.4%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
New business applications · low8.8 /1k
13/100Maine 10.0 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauKennebec County value
Distance to an emergency room · high10.0 mi
16/100Maine 8.6 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesKennebec County value
Job growth · low-1.6%
17/100Maine -0.5%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataKennebec County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
4,928 (2015-2019) → 5,873 (2020-2024)
+19%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
83.3% (2015-2019) → 92.8% (2020-2024)
+9.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
45.1% (2015-2019) → 53.7% (2020-2024)
+8.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.8× (2015-2019) → 3.7× (2020-2024)
+32%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
9.7% (2015-2019) → 3.7% (2020-2024)
−6 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Median household incomeImproving
$46,980 (2015-2019) → $59,547 (2020-2024)
+27%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Winslow, Maine improved on 3 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 10 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved3

Uninsured−6 points9.7% → 3.7%
Broadband+9.6 points83.3% → 92.8%
Household income+27%$46,980 → $59,547

Declined1

Price / income+0.9×2.8× → 3.7×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Winslow, Maine between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	19.9 min2015-2019	21.8 min2020-2024	+1.9 min	Within the margin of error	28%
Bachelor's degree or higher	22.7%2015-2019	27.6%2020-2024	+4.8 points	Within the margin of error	66%
Broadband subscriptions	83.3%2015-2019	92.8%2020-2024	+9.6 points	Improved	58%
Child poverty rate	16.6%2015-2019	19.4%2020-2024	+2.7 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Effective property tax rate	1.36%2015-2019	1.12%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	64%
High school diploma or higher	93.9%2015-2019	93.3%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	26%
Home price to income ratio	2.8×2015-2019	3.7×2020-2024	+0.9×	Declined	27%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3862015-2019	0.4042020-2024	+0.018	Within the margin of error	35%
Median household income	$46,9802015-2019	$59,5472020-2024	+27%	Improved	48%
Poverty rate	13.2%2015-2019	11.3%2020-2024	−1.9 points	Within the margin of error	61%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	27.9%2015-2019	31.3%2020-2024	+3.4 points	Within the margin of error	30%
Rent-burdened households	45.1%2015-2019	53.7%2020-2024	+8.6 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	9.7%2015-2019	3.7%2020-2024	−6 points	Improved	90%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Winslow, Maine five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Winslow, Maine in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Winslow, Maine itself moved −7.8 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

5,873 residents (±352)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

2,557 households (±203)

Winslow, Maine
Maine share

Under $25k15%†384
$25k–50k26%666
$50k–75k17%†429

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

2,557 households (±203)

Winslow, Maine
Maine share

Own70%1,792
Rent30%765

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

2,400 workers (±313)

Winslow, Maine
Maine share

Drive alone76%1,826
Carpool7.6%†182
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Augusta-Waterville, ME

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Kennebec County, the county holding most of Winslow's residents.

Kennebec County has 3,318 employer establishments, 259 for every 10,000 residents (1.04× the US rate of 248; 0.84× Maine's), with 49,617 paid employees at an average annual pay of $53,915. The Census Bureau also counts 9,507 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 3,318; 9,507 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 259; US 248 · Maine 309
Paid employees: 49,617
Average annual pay: $53,915; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Kennebec County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	265	20.7	1.33×More than typical	1,542	$66,281	963
Ambulatory health care services	254	19.8	0.95×About typical	4,555	$70,174	435
Restaurants and other eating places	228	17.8	0.97×About typical	3,784	$24,463	34
Construction of buildings	143	11.1	1.47×More than typical	521	$51,927	465
Lessors of real estate	117	9.1	0.74×Fewer than typical	375	$49,923	962
Building equipment contractors	105	8.2	1.36×More than typical	515	$54,280	187
Services to buildings and dwellings	101	7.9	1.17×About typical	486	$47,163	583
Limited-service restaurants	90	7	0.87×About typical	1,419	$24,158	17
Automotive repair and maintenance	88	6.9	1.36×More than typical	368	$45,063	193
Full-service restaurants	87	6.8	0.88×About typical	1,804	$27,100	10
Offices of other health practitioners	74	5.8	0.95×About typical	501	$51,044	264
Landscaping services	73	5.7	1.62×More than typical	206	$64,694	227

Rank places for an industry Open Kennebec County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 128,254 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $42.4K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Winslow, Maine: $7.22 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $42.4K; −21% vs FY2025
Per resident: $7.22; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 28%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Defense Logistics Agency$38.3K90%
Department of the Army$4,68011%

Top recipients

ORION ROPEWORKS, LLC$38.3K90%
PHOENIX CONTRACTING LLC$3,1457.4%
GREENFIELD INTERNATIONAL CORP.$1,5353.6%
ANDROSCOGGIN HOME HEALTH SERVICES INC-$5580.0%

Spending by fiscal year

59.5KFY2017
98.1KFY2018
92.4KFY2019
197.1KFY2020
69.7KFY2021
76.1KFY2022
68.8KFY2023
64.4KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Other textile product mills · 3149$36.6K86%
Motor vehicle body and trailer manufacturing · 3362$3,1457.4%
Resin, synthetic rubber, and artificial fibers manufacturing · 3252$1,6974.0%
Services to buildings and dwellings · 5617$1,5353.6%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Winslow, Maine, so they do not add up across cities.

Winslow, Maine's figures are part of those of Kennebec County, ME ($19.7M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.2% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Winslow is mostly in Kennebec County.

See federal money in Kennebec County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Winslow, Maine is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

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County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Kennebec County83100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Augusta-Waterville, ME82

Other cities and towns in Kennebec County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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