ZIP Code 04859

ZIP code 04859, which takes in Friendship, sits in upper-middle-income territory. A median household income of $75,341 and per-capita income of $70,170 point to a population that earns comfortably above what many Maine communities see. The county-level property tax rate of 1.17% means owners here hand over a meaningful slice of their home's value each year, though the 5.50% combined sales tax stays below the state's typical take. Together, the two taxes draw a steady line through household budgets, with property taxes doing most of the pulling.