Bar Harbor, Maine.
Typical home $661,366 (+1.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,041 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,501 +1%
- $654,865$661,366 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $142,772 +28%
- $518,594$661,366 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Bar Harbor$3,471
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Bar Harbor, ME rose 1.0% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
Bar Harbor, in Hancock County, had 2,260 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $67,701 a year and half less, against $72,744 across Hancock County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Hancock County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Hancock County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Bar Harbor is a small coastal community in Hancock County, Maine, set beside Acadia National Park. Household incomes are somewhat below the county's, and the typical home costs a good deal, so living here can be a stretch for many. Winters are cold, with snow and highs hovering around freezing in January, while summers stay mild, and a fair amount of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Mount Desert Island Hospital, the National Park Service and College of the Atlantic are among the largest workplaces in town. Commutes are short, and a share of people work from home.
Things to do. Acadia National Park lies in or beside town, and Agamont Park, a small park, is right in town as well. The Abbe Museum is also close by, and a short drive away is Jordan Pond, a lake that many visitors come to see.
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- 1,069households
- 14%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Hancock County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hancock County had 23,626 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 60°. About 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Acadia Np weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bar Harbor
- Mount Desert Island HospitalCritical access hospital311FTE
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior183
- College of the AtlanticUniversity or college116
- HannafordGrocery stores100
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 560 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- LightningVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bar Harbor’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Hancock County.
Bar Harbor home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bar Harbor$661,366
- Maine$412,002
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Bar Harbor listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Bar Harbor17.51%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bar Harbor34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bar Harbor7
Zip codes with a Bar Harbor address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bar Harbor — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.