Madawaska is a

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(CDP) comprising the main village within the

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of Madawaska in

Aroostook County Aroostook County ( ; french: Comté d'Aroostook) is a county in the U.S. state of Maine along the Canada–U.S. border. As of the 2020 census, the population was 67,105. Its county seat is Houlton, with offices in Caribou and Fort Kent. Kn ...

, Maine, United States. The population of the CDP was 2,967 at the 2010 census, out of a population of 4,035 for the entire town.

Geography

The Madawaska CDP is located at (47.352645, −68.330943) in the northwestern corner of the town of Madawaska. The Saint John River forms the northern edge of the CDP as well as the

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U.S. Route 1 U.S. Route 1 or U.S. Highway 1 (US 1) is a major north–south United States Numbered Highway that serves the East Coast of the United States. It runs from Key West, Florida, north to Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canadian border, making i ...

runs east–west through the center of the CDP, leading southwest (officially northbound) to Fort Kent, the highway's northern terminus, and southeast (southbound) to

Caribou Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 subspe ...

. A bridge across the Saint John River connects Madawaska with the city of

Edmundston Edmundston is a city in Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada. On 1 January 2023, Edmundston will expanded, annexing the village of Rivière-Verte and parts of the local service districts of the parish of Saint-Jacques and the parish of Sai ...

New Brunswick New Brunswick (french: Nouveau-Brunswick, , locally ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. It is the only province with both English and ...

, Canada. The Madawaska River of New Brunswick joins the Saint John River just east (downstream) of the international bridge. According to the

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, the Madawaska CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.89%, is water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 3,326 people, 1,523 households, and 927 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 1,667 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 98.11%

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, 0.09%

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, 0.51% Native American, 0.66%

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, 0.12% from

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, and 0.51% from two or more races.

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of any race were 0.18% of the population. There were 1,523 households, out of which 23.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.7% were married couples living together, 6.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.1% were non-families. 35.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.11 and the average family size was 2.73. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 18.7% under the age of 18, 5.3% from 18 to 24, 23.7% from 25 to 44, 30.4% from 45 to 64, and 21.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 46 years. For every 100 females, there were 86.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.3 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $30,605, and the median income for a family was $43,287. Males had a median income of $47,429 versus $23,233 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $17,657. About 4.4% of families and 9.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.8% of those under age 18 and 12.6% of those age 65 or over.

References

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