The 10 most rural towns in Maine

The 10 most rural towns in Maine

What is the most rural part of Maine? The no-man’s land between Calais and Houlton, the western Maine highlands and remote Aroostook County all have their claims. Those regions just about evenly split the top 10 towns in the Bangor Daily News’ Rural Maine Index, a statistical model that we created to rank towns by rurality using distance to major stores, population density, commuting patterns and distance to Portland. Here’s why these towns jump…