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Lewiston Publick

An independent guide to city government in Lewiston, Maine

City budget

The city's property tax rate, what the property tax raises, and what it comes to for a home and for each resident, from Maine Revenue Services (MRS).

Checked . State figures as of ; MRS publishes each tax year's figures in the November or December after the next.

Property tax rate

The rate is in dollars for each $1,000 of a property's assessed value, and the same rate applies to homes and businesses. It pays for the city, its schools, and its share of the county. Maine names each rate by its tax year: the rate is set on property as it stood on April 1, and the city's fiscal year usually starts that July.

Tax yearLewistonState medianCertified ratio
2024$31.77$14.5654%
2023$30.00$15.5873%
2022$28.50$15.7078%
2021$28.26$16.5081%
2020$28.67$16.7084%
2019$28.91$16.7388%
2018$28.67$16.5088%
2017$28.02$16.4089%
2016$27.54$16.0591%
2015$27.37$15.7591%

Calculated by Publick. The middle of the tax rates of the 482 Maine municipalities with a rate that year, as Maine Revenue Services publishes them.

Maine towns and cities assess property at a share of its market value, the certified ratio, which falls as values rise between revaluations. When a city revalues, assessed values jump and the rate falls to match, so a lower rate doesn't by itself mean lower bills. In 2024 the city's assessed values were 54% of market value. Source: MRS, Municipal Valuation Return Statistical Summary.

What the property tax raises

The city's property tax commitment, the tax it levied, was $69.3 million in tax year 2024, on $2,181.0 million of taxable property: land, buildings, and business equipment, after exemptions.

Tax yearCommitmentTaxable valuationChange
2024$69.3M$2,181.0M+7.0%
2023$64.8M$2,158.8M+7.3%
2022$60.4M$2,118.2M+3.9%
2021$58.1M$2,055.4M+4.7%
2020$55.5M$1,934.2M-1.0%
2019$56.0M$1,938.5M+2.2%
2018$54.8M$1,912.2M+2.5%
2017$53.5M$1,908.4M+2.5%
2016$52.1M$1,893.5M+0.5%
2015$51.9M$1,896.4M–

The change is in the commitment. Amounts are not adjusted for inflation. Source: MRS, Municipal Valuation Return Statistical Summary.

Average single-family tax bill

In tax year 2024, the average single-family home in Lewiston was assessed at $108,160. At that year's rate of $31.77 per $1,000, its tax bill was $3,436. Assessed values were 54% of market value that year, so the home's market value was higher.

Calculated by Publick. The average assessed value, land and buildings, of 6,510 single-family homes (land use "101") in the Maine GeoLibrary's parcel table, times the 2024 tax rate from Maine Revenue Services. It's the bill before exemptions, such as the homestead exemption. Maine doesn't publish an average bill. The parcel table is what each city sends the Maine GeoLibrary, so the figure is shown only while the city's parcels add up to about its taxable land and buildings in MRS's figures for that year.

Sources: MRS, Municipal Valuation Return Statistical Summary; Maine GeoLibrary, Maine Parcels Organized Towns.

Property tax per resident

In tax year 2024, Lewiston's property tax came to $1,785 per resident. The median across 482 Maine towns, cities, and plantations was $2,061.

Calculated by Publick. Each municipality's 2024 property tax commitment, from Maine Revenue Services' Municipal Valuation Return, divided by its Census population estimate for July 1, 2024. The median is of 482 Maine towns, cities, and plantations.

Property tax per resident depends on how much of a town's tax base is businesses rather than homes, and on seasonal homes, whose owners pay tax but aren't counted as residents. Population: 38,821. Sources: MRS; U.S. Census Bureau population estimates.

City budget documents, including department detail, are on the city website.

– means no figure for that year: the state hasn't published it, or, for a change, there's no earlier year to compare with.