Demographics
| Historical populations | |||
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| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1820 | 1,221 |
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| 1830 | 2,867 | 134.8% | |
| 1840 | 8,627 | 200.9% | |
| 1850 | 14,432 | 67.3% | |
| 1860 | 16,407 | 13.7% | |
| 1870 | 18,289 | 11.5% | |
| 1880 | 16,856 | −7.8% | |
| 1890 | 19,103 | 13.3% | |
| 1900 | 21,850 | 14.4% | |
| 1910 | 24,803 | 13.5% | |
| 1920 | 25,978 | 4.7% | |
| 1930 | 28,749 | 10.7% | |
| 1940 | 29,822 | 3.7% | |
| 1950 | 31,558 | 5.8% | |
| 1960 | 38,912 | 23.3% | |
| 1970 | 33,168 | −14.8% | |
| 1980 | 31,643 | −4.6% | |
| 1990 | 33,181 | 4.9% | |
| 2000 | 31,473 | −5.1% | |
| 2010 | 35,473 | 12.7% | |
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As of 2007, the population of the Bangor Metropolitan Area (which includes Penobscot and parts of Waldo and Hancock Counties) is 147,180, indicating a 1.56 growth rate since 2000, almost all of it accounted for by Bangor. Metro Bangor had a higher percentage of people with high school degrees than the national average (85% compared to 76.5%) and a slightly higher number of graduate degree holders (7.55% compared to 7.16%). It had much higher number of physicians per capita (291 vs. 170), because of the presence of two large hospitals.
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