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About Bath
City in Maine, United StatesBath is a city in and county seat of Sagadahoc County, Maine, United States. Bath had a 2024 population of 8,870. Bath is growing at a rate of 0.29% annually, and its population has increased by 1.21% since the most recent census, which recorded a population of 8,764 in 2020. The city is popular with tourists, many drawn by its 19th-century architecture. It is home to the Bath Iron Works and Heritage Days Festival, held annually during the Fourth of July weekend. It is commonly known as the "City of Ships" due to the number of sailing ships that were built in the Bath shipyards. Bath is part of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan statistical area.
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How Bath ranks
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Housing in Bath
The typical Bath home is worth about $379,000, about the same as a year ago, 9% below the Maine typical home.
A seller's market
Safety in Bath
Safety Grade A-
Bath reports less crime per resident than 77% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade. Maine has less reported crime than most states, so among its own towns Bath sits closer to the middle.
Schools in Bath
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The public schools Bath’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 68% of Maine’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within ME. Ratings are from neighbors.
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