Bath is a somewhat small city located in the state of Maine. With a population of 8,817 people and two associated neighborhoods, Bath is the 30th largest community in Maine. Bath has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.Bath is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Bath is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bath who work in management occupations (10.95%), sales jobs (10.67%), and teaching (8.64%). Of important note, Bath is also a city of artists. Bath has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Bath’s character. Also of interest is that Bath has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 19.31% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. Being a small city, Bath does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of Bath ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Bath, 42.46% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree. The per capita income in Bath in 2022 was $44,655, which is upper middle income relative to Maine and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $178,620 for a family of four. However, Bath contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Bath home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bath residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Bath include English, Irish, German, French, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Bath is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and French.
