ZIP 04442 vs ZIP 04485

This side-by-side compares ZIP 04442 (Greenville Junction, ME) and ZIP 04485 (Shirley Mills, ME) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both — no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 04442 has a population of 93 at 1 people per square mile, while ZIP 04485 has 233 at 2 per square mile. That difference in population size and density alone reshapes how every other metric should be interpreted — a higher-income ZIP with 1,200 residents behaves very differently from one with 45,000.

On income and education, ZIP 04442 reports a median household income of $73,750 against $61,875 in ZIP 04485, with per-capita income of $33,607 vs $39,548. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 3.8% in 04442 and 30.6% in 04485. Poverty rate reads 17.3% vs 17.0%, and unemployment 31.9% vs 2.5% — these four fields alone drive most of the difference in the scorecard grades you will see for each ZIP.

Housing separates these two ZIPs further: median home value sits at $206,300 in 04442 versus $219,600 in 04485, with median rent of — and — per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 100.0% vs 99.0%. When reading the comparison table below, focus on paired metrics rather than single winners — a ZIP with lower home values and lower income is not strictly "worse" if rent-to-income ratios and commute times land in the same zone. Every value is pulled from the exact same ACS table so the two columns are genuinely comparable.