ZIP 04971 vs ZIP 04965

This side-by-side compares ZIP 04971 (Saint Albans, ME) and ZIP 04965 (Palmyra, ME) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both — no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 04971 has a population of 2,005 at 17 people per square mile, while ZIP 04965 has 1,976 at 19 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 04971 reports a median household income of $65,600 against $60,543 in ZIP 04965, with per-capita income of $34,734 vs $24,280. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 21.8% in 04971 and 13.8% in 04965. Poverty rate reads 23.2% vs 9.1%, and unemployment 2.0% vs 1.5% — 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 $194,000 in 04971 versus $154,900 in 04965, with median rent of $1,056 and $733 per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 85.2% vs 82.6%. 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.