37,582 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.3% since 2020)
254 square miles of land · 148 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
9 active community water systems list Sagadahoc County in the area they serve, reporting 12,127 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BATH WATER DISTRICT surface water · local government · ME0090130 | 9,205 served |
| RICHMOND UTILITIES DISTRICT groundwater · local government · ME0091370 | 1,492 served |
| BOWDOINHAM WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · ME0090210 | 738 served |
| TOPSHAM MOBILE HOME PARK INC groundwater · private · ME0003374 | 243 served |
| HILLHOUSE INC groundwater · private · ME0095240 | 146 served |
| CATHANCE TRAILER PARK groundwater · private · ME0003375 | 135 served |
| PINEWOOD ACRES TRAILER PARK groundwater · private · ME0008855 | 95 served |
| MEADOWVIEW APARTMENTS groundwater · private · ME0092363 | 40 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 84 people were held in Sagadahoc County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 368 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 76.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
3 school districts have their office in Sagadahoc County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $49 million — $45.3 million to run schools, about $19,044 per student, plus $657,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $28.9 million local (mostly property tax), $23.4 million state, $2 million federal. Long-term debt: $52.3 million.
Spent $45.2 million — $41.3 million to run schools, about $23,406 per student, plus $997,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $32.9 million local (mostly property tax), $20.3 million state, $3.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $80.1 million.
Spent $4.2 million — $2.9 million to run schools, about $27,551 per student. Money in: $3.5 million local (mostly property tax), $419,000 state, $197,000 federal.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Sagadahoc County about $9.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
64 bridges in Sagadahoc County: 18 in good condition, 40 fair, and 6 poor (9.4%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| AUGUSTA RD over CATHANCE RIVER · built 1973 | 4,672 vehicles a day |
| CATHANCE RD over CATHANCE RIVER · built 1920 | 1,089 vehicles a day |
| RIVER RD over ABAGADASSET RIVER · built 1936 | 819 vehicles a day |
| FORESIDE RD over MUDDY RIVER · built 1952 | 378 vehicles a day |
| BROWNS POINT RD over ABAGADASSET RIVER · built 1949 | 366 vehicles a day |
| LANGDON RD over ABAGADASET RIVER · built 1983 | 335 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $13.6 million of work in Sagadahoc County in fiscal 2025, about $371 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Maine are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Sagadahoc County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Sagadahoc County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Lincoln County (17 mi) · Androscoggin County (25 mi) · Cumberland County (25 mi) · Kennebec County (35 mi) · Knox County (41 mi) · Waldo County (53 mi).