Compare Maine sheriff department costs
Sheriff department cost and staffing across all 16 counties. Click a column header to sort. Hover a column header to see what it measures. Data as of 2026-09-26.
| County | Population | Budget | $/resident | Sworn / 100k res | Custody / 100k res | Beds / 100k res |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Androscoggin County | 111,532 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aroostook County | 67,237 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cumberland County | 303,357 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Franklin County | 29,839 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hancock County | 55,851 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kennebec County | 124,003 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Knox County | 40,729 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lincoln County | 35,466 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oxford County | 58,276 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Penobscot County | 152,640 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Piscataquis County | 16,936 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sagadahoc County | 36,868 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Somerset County | 50,656 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Waldo County | 39,772 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Washington County | 31,096 | — | — | — | — | — |
| York County | 212,691 | — | — | — | — | — |
A note on data vintages and definitions. Population is the US Census Bureau's 2018-2022 American Community Survey 5-year estimate. Sheriff staffing is not currently loaded for Maine, so the staffing columns show a dash throughout this table. They previously carried the US Census Bureau's Census of Governments Employment 2022 figure, which counts a county government's police protection and corrections employment by function code rather than by agency. That total includes the county probation department, the coroner and the crime lab, and it excludes the sheriff's own court services staff, so it does not describe a sheriff's office. Staffing will return here when a county-published figure is loaded. County jail data has not yet been loaded for Maine; the eventual source is expected to be the Maine Department of Corrections' county jail inspections under 34-A M.R.S. § 1208, most recently compiled in a legislative report (mainelegislature.org/doc/12491) rather than a single downloadable capacity dataset. Sheriff department budget data has not yet been loaded for Maine. Sheriff names were collected from the Maine Sheriffs' Association directory and machine-verified against county sources in July 2026; all 16 counties are named.