{"id":4469,"date":"2023-06-23T21:12:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T21:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2026-08-15T06:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:36:41","slug":"hancock-county-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/hancock-county-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Hancock County, Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hancock is a county in Maine, United States, on the state’s Downeast coast, taking in Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park. It had a population of 55,478 at the 2020 census and covers 2,345 square miles (6,070 km2) — 1,587 square miles of land and 758 square miles of water — centred near 44°34′N 68°22′W.<\/p>\n

Ellsworth is the county seat, and its postal code is 04605. The county has one city, 35 towns, several unincorporated villages, and four unorganized territories. It runs on Eastern time and carries FIPS code 23009.<\/p>\n

Towns & Villages in Hancock County<\/h2>\n

Hancock County’s 36 incorporated places — Ellsworth plus 35 towns — are supplemented by a scatter of unincorporated villages inside the larger towns and four unorganized territories with no town government at all. In the table below, CDP<\/strong> marks a Census Bureau-defined village that is not itself a separate municipality, and Unincorp.<\/strong> marks a named village or harbor settlement with no incorporated or CDP status of its own.<\/p>\n

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Place<\/th>\nType<\/th>\nPop.<\/th>\nZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Ellsworth<\/td>\nCity · seat<\/td>\n8,399<\/td>\n04605<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bar Harbor<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n5,098<\/td>\n04609<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bucksport<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n4,944<\/td>\n04416<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Blue Hill<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n2,792<\/td>\n04614<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mount Desert<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n2,146<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hancock<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n2,466<\/td>\n04640<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Orland<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n2,221<\/td>\n04472<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Deer Isle<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n2,194<\/td>\n04627<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Southwest Harbor<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n1,756<\/td>\n04679<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lamoine<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n1,720<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gouldsboro<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n1,703<\/td>\n04607<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dedham<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n1,648<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Surry<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n1,623<\/td>\n04684<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Franklin<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n1,567<\/td>\n04634<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tremont<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n1,544<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Castine<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n1,320<\/td>\n04421<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sullivan<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n1,219<\/td>\n04664<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sedgwick<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n1,202<\/td>\n04676<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stonington<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n1,056<\/td>\n04681<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brooksville<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n935<\/td>\n04617<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brooklin<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n827<\/td>\n04616<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Otis<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n673<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Verona Island<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n507<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mariaville<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n472<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Winter Harbor<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n461<\/td>\n04693<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eastbrook<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n424<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Swan’s Island<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n355<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Waltham<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n332<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Trenton<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sorrento<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amherst<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n248<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cranberry Isles<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n160<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aurora<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n93<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Osborn<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Great Pond<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n61<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Frenchboro<\/td>\nTown<\/td>\n29<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Northeast Harbor<\/td>\nCDP<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n04662<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Somesville<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hulls Cove<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Salisbury Cove<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seal Harbor<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n04675<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Town Hill<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bass Harbor<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n04653<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bernard<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Manset<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Corea<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prospect Harbor<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n04669<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sargentville<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunset<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seal Cove<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Harborside<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
East Blue Hill<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
East Orland<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Islesford<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n04646<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Minturn<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Maine’s town-plantation-unorganized-territory system means a place name and a governing unit are not always the same thing. Northeast Harbor is a Census Bureau village inside the town of Mount Desert; Bar Harbor, Blue Hill, Bucksport, Castine, Southwest Harbor and Winter Harbor are also each mapped as a separate CDP centred on the town’s own village core, so town and village totals overlap rather than add. Marshall Island, Central Hancock, East Hancock and Northwest Hancock are unorganized territory with no town government, administered directly by the state.<\/p>\n

ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n