Bar Harbor is a

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(CDP) in the

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Bar Harbor Bar Harbor is a resort town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population is 5,089. During the summer and fall seasons, it is a popular tourist destination and, until a catastrophic fire i ...

in Hancock County,

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, United States. The CDP population was 2,552 at the 2010 census, out of a population of 5,235 in the town of Bar Harbor as a whole.

Geography

The Bar Harbor CDP consists of the main urban center of the town of Bar Harbor. The CDP is located on

Mount Desert Island Mount Desert Island (MDI; french: Île des Monts Déserts) in Hancock County, Maine, is the largest island off the coast of Maine. With an area of it is the 52nd-largest island in the United States, the sixth-largest island in the contiguous ...

at (44.385904, −68.209514), in the eastern part of the town. The CDP is bordered to the northeast by

Frenchman Bay Frenchman Bay is a bay in Hancock County, Maine, named for Samuel de Champlain, the French explorer who visited the area in 1604. Frenchman Bay may have been the location of the Jesuit St. Sauveur mission, established in 1613. In a 1960 book ...

, including the actual Bar Harbor cove, to the west by Paradise Hill Road and to the south by Park Loop Road and Bear Brook. The western and southern margins of the CDP are within

Acadia National Park Acadia National Park is an American national park located along the mid-section of the Maine coast, southwest of Bar Harbor. The park preserves about half of Mount Desert Island, part of the Isle au Haut, the tip of the Schoodic Peninsula, and ...

. The CDP extends northwest along Route 3 and the Frenchman Bay shoreline as far as

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is the primary road through the community, leading northwest to the bridge to the mainland at Mount Desert Narrows and to Ellsworth. Route 3 leads south from Bar Harbor through Acadia National Park to Northeast Harbor.

Maine State Route 233 State Route 233 (SR 233) is a state highway located on Mount Desert Island on the southern central coast of Maine. Its western terminus is at SR 3 and SR 198 in the town of Mount Desert. It runs for across the island to Bar Harbor, w ...

leads west from Bar Harbor to

Somesville Somesville is the earliest village of the town of Mount Desert on Mount Desert Island in southeastern Maine. It is located on the north end of Somes Sound. The village was established by Abraham Somes who was the first settler on the island.Hart ...

. According to the

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, the CDP has a total area of 3.2 square miles (8.2 km²), all land.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 2,680 people, 1,241 households, and 568 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 1,558 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 97.35%

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, 0.26%

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, 0.22% Native American, 1.01%

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, 0.15% from

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, and 1.01% from two or more races.

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of any race were 0.71% of the population. There were 1,241 households, out of which 19.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.3% were married couples living together, 6.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 54.2% were non-families. 41.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 17.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.01 and the average family size was 2.71. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 16.8% under the age of 18, 12.9% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 24.2% from 45 to 64, and 19.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 77.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 74.0 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $33,609, and the median income for a family was $50,729. Males had a median income of $30,688 versus $24,844 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $23,730. About 4.4% of families and 10.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.1% of those under age 18 and 7.5% of those age 65 or over.

References

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