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Calais city, Maine: commercial real estate data.
Calais city is a Census city of 3,097 people across 34.32 square miles of land, in Washington County. Median household income is $64,096, 73.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $30,000.
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Calais
What Calais is
- Census place typecity
- Land area34.32 sq mi
- Water area5.77 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land90
- County holding the largest share of its areaWashington County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Calais
How many people live in Calais
- Population3,097
- Median age43.8
- Population under 18509 plus or minus 147
- Share under 1816.4 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Population 65 and over746 plus or minus 163
- Share 65 and over24.1 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Households1,420
- Family households850
- Share of households that are families59.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Calais
Income and work in Calais
- Median household income$64,096
- Per capita income$35,734
- Civilian labor force1,496
- Employed1,409
- Unemployed87 plus or minus 69
- Unemployment rate5.8 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Adults 25 and over2,291
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher88.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher25.3 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree12.3 percent plus or minus 5.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Calais
Housing in Calais
- Housing units1,636
- Occupied units1,420
- Vacant units216 plus or minus 127
- Vacancy rate13.2 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Owner occupied1,042
- Renter occupied378 plus or minus 122
- Ownership rate73.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$111,100 plus or minus $36,347
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,010
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.9 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Single family units1,205
- Share single family73.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more269 plus or minus 107
- Share in buildings of two or more16.4 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Mobile homes162 plus or minus 80
- Median year structure built1969
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Calais
How Calais gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,295
- Commuting under 15 minutes917 plus or minus 227
- Share commuting under 15 minutes70.8 percent plus or minus 14.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more202 plus or minus 108
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more15.6 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Drove alone86.5 percent
- Carpooled6.2 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.2 percent plus or minus 2.7
- Worked from home2.6 percent plus or minus 2.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Calais
SBA loans in Calais (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$30,000
- Average approval$30,000
- Median approval$30,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$30,000
- Largest approval$30,000
- Jobs supported4
- Jobs per approval4.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Washington County, not Calais
Washington County context, not Calais figures
These are Washington County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Calais measurements.
- Establishments in Washington County845
- Employment at those establishments, Washington County7,475
- Covered employment, Washington County10,211
- Average annual pay, Washington County$50,219
- Average weekly wage, Washington County$966
- Housing units permitted, Washington County97
- Of those, single family, Washington County90
- County product, 2024, Washington County$1,474,205,000
- County product change over the prior year, Washington County2.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Washington County$66,558
Every figure in this section is published for Washington County as a whole and is not a measurement of Calais. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Calais questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Calais, Maine?
3,097, in 1,420 households. Calais city covers 34.32 square miles of land, which is 90 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Calais in?
Washington County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Calais?
$64,096. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $111,100. Median gross rent is $1,010 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Calais businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $30,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $30,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Calais, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Calais borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Calais. only 1 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Calais figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Washington County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Calais.
Is zoning published for Calais?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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