Beautiful Maine city’s native population drops by a third since 2000… and no one born in state will live there by 2050 if trend continues
A demographic shift is underway in Portland, where the number of residents born in Maine has plummeted by almost a third in the last 25 years. As of 2024, just 40 percent of the city’s population was Maine-born, per the latest American Community Survey. It means natives are now outnumbered by transplants in the city, stark change from 2000 where 59 percent of Portland’s residents were from within the Pine State.