It was less expensive to live in Maine, on average, than in the U.S. as a whole, in 2015.
In the Portland-South Portland area — one of Maine's three metropolitan areas — the cost of goods and services was just above the national average, however. Rent in this area was also almost 10 percent above the national average.
Comparatively, rents in Lewiston-Auburn were only about 80 percent of the national average and about 90 percent in Bangor.
The new numbers from the Bureau of Economic analysis are the most recent available.
