What salary do you need to live in Lewiston, ME?

What housing costs in Lewiston

Renters in Lewiston pay a median $1,124 a month for two bedrooms. Size matters: one bedroom is $784, three bedrooms $1,246, so going from the smallest to the largest of the three adds $5,544 a year.

On the ownership side, the typical owner-occupied home is valued at $252,800. That works out to 3.7× the local median household income of $67,873, a mid-range ratio.

BEA's Regional Price Parity for the metro is 94.7, where 100 is the US average. In plain terms, the full basket of goods, services and housing costs 5.3% less than average, so $100,000 here buys roughly what $105,556 would at average US prices.

How much you need to earn in Lewiston

With a two-bedroom at the median rent, the score enters Tight at $33,000, Okay at $66,000 and Comfortable at $133,000 a year before tax. At the Comfortable line, a year of rent takes 10% of income and the median home is 1.9× income.

Reaching Royal takes $390,000 — 2.9× the Comfortable line — because the last points come slowly once rent is already a small share.

Nothing here is a separate rule of thumb; plug any of these incomes into the calculator with two bedrooms and Lewiston shows the matching grade.

Four salaries, three home sizes in Lewiston

At $75,000 home size barely changes the picture: one, two and three bedrooms all grade Okay, with scores from 47 to 54.

The two-bedroom column turns Comfortable at the $150,000 row. One row up, $100,000 scores 57.

How Lewiston ranks among 387 metros

Ranked against all 387 metros, Lewiston sits 172nd on overall price level and 194th on the two-bedroom rent median, counting from the most expensive. Its median home value ranks 203rd.

Brunswick-St. Simons, GA ($1,124) and Gettysburg, PA ($1,123) bracket Lewiston on two-bedroom rent.

Comparing Lewiston with Maine

Compared with Maine as a whole, two-bedroom rent in Lewiston is 8% lower ($1,124 vs. $1,224) and the median home is 15% lower ($252,800 vs. $296,600).

On statewide medians, a two-bedroom budget reaches Comfortable at $158,000 — above Lewiston's $133,000 line.

Maine has only 2 other metros in the data, Bangor, ME and Portland-South Portland, ME, so the closest match elsewhere, Kalamazoo-Portage, MI, is included too.

Where the typical Lewiston household lands

A household at the Lewiston median income of $67,873 would see a two-bedroom score of 46 — Okay — with rent at 20% of income. Put differently, Lewiston's typical household is $65,127 below the $133,000 it takes to read Comfortable on two bedrooms. Statewide, the Maine median household ($74,733) grades Tight on the state's own medians. A household figure may pool several earners, unlike a single salary.

All figures are pre-tax estimates from public data, not financial advice.