About & support
Maine’s public data, made usable.
MaineStats pulls public data from official Maine state agencies and U.S. federal sources, normalizes it, and presents it so a journalist, planner, business owner, or curious resident can understand it without digging through a dozen government websites.
What it is — and isn’t
MaineStats is an independent project, not a state agency site. There’s no opinion section or commentary layered on top — just sourced charts, plain labels, and notes where the data needs context. It’s also not a live feed. Each source updates on its own schedule, from daily to annual, so MaineStats may lag the original source by a refresh cycle.
Every number traces back to a public dataset. You can see exactly where each one comes from on the data sources page, and how fresh each is on the refresh status page.
MaineStats updates
Get a short email when meaningful data refreshes or something new is added. No spam, no forced schedule — just a few numbers worth knowing when there’s actually something to share.
Support the project
MaineStats is free and ad-free. Pulling, cleaning, and hosting public data takes ongoing time and a little money. If it’s useful to you, sponsorship helps keep it running and growing.
Support doesn’t buy influence. Sponsors don’t decide what gets added, how charts are built, or what the public site says.
For organizations
If your organization relies on Maine public data — a planning council, a nonprofit, a newsroom, a trade group — there are two ways to work together. We take on custom data projects, and we accept underwriting: support that keeps MaineStats free for everyone, acknowledged here on the About page. Either way the independence line holds — underwriters and clients don’t influence what gets published or how a chart is built. Get in touch to talk about either.
A note on the data
Where figures are model-based estimates (like CDC health prevalence) or provisional (like overdose counts), that’s noted on the chart. Where a measure is an average rather than a median, or a regional rather than a Maine-specific figure, that’s noted too. If you spot a discrepancy between a chart here and its original source, the original source is right.