Berwick, Maine.
Typical home $472,543 (+4.6% in a year). Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,471 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,925 +5%
- $451,619$472,543 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $116,596 +33%
- $355,947$472,543 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.
- Berwick$2,480
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Berwick, ME rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Berwick, York County, Maine
Berwick, in York County, had 2,277 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in York County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in York County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Berwick is a small community in York County, Maine, with a population that skews a little older than the typical American town. Household incomes sit well within the range of the county's, and homes here are valued fairly high. Winters are cold and the summers pleasantly warm, and precipitation arrives through the year as rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. A good number work from home. Across York County, some of the largest workplaces are Pratt & Whitney North Berwick Parts Center, which makes jet engine components, Southern Maine Health Care, and the University of New England. Unemployment across the county is low and close to where it stood a year earlier, and the number of jobs there has held roughly steady.
Things to do. Rivers are the main draw nearby. The Salmon Falls River and the Great Works River are both a short drive away. Vaughan Woods State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive away, and so is Powderhouse Hill, a ski area. For a quieter outing, the Sarah Orne Jewett House, a museum, is a short drive off as well.
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- 5%below the poverty line
- 14%work from home
What people in York County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. York County had 79,603 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rochester Skyhaven Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in York County
- Pratt & Whitney North Berwick Parts CenterJet engine components2,309
- Southern Maine Health CareGeneral hospital1,478FTE
- University of New EnglandUniversity or college1,322
- SMHC Hosptial BiddefordGeneral medical and surgical hospitals994
- York HospitalGeneral hospital816FTE
- RSU 06/msad 06 SchoolsSchool district812FTE
- Sanford Public SchoolsSchool district644FTE
- RSU 60/msad 60 SchoolsSchool district596FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 149 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,243 people in all across the county; Berwick has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Berwick’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 York County and the Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
Berwick home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Berwick$472,543
- Maine$412,002
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Berwick 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.
- Berwick25.66%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Berwick25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Berwick11
Zip codes with a Berwick address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Berwick — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.