Bingham, Maine.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,272 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
Living in Bingham, Somerset County, Maine
Bingham, in Somerset County, had 716 people in the 2020 census. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Somerset County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Somerset 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bingham is a small community on the Kennebec River in western Maine, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall through the year, and the long winters shape much of the rhythm of local life.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Somerset County, some of the largest workplaces are Sappi North America, which makes paper products in its mills, and Redington-Fairview General Hospital. The commute to work is a little longer than a short hop across town, and a small number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Baker Mountain is a ski area in or beside town, which suits a place with this much snow. A longer drive away are Sugarloaf, another ski area, and Flagstaff Lake, a large reservoir. Norridgewock, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away for those interested in the area's history.
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- 285households
- 16%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Somerset County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Somerset County had 15,847 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 56°. About 79 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Harmony weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Somerset County
- Sappi North AmericaPaper products made in paper mills796
- Redington-fairview General HospitalCritical access hospital691FTE
- RSU 54/msad 54 SchoolsSchool district510FTE
- RSU 49/msad 49 SchoolsSchool district376FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters301
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters255
- Sebasticook Valley HospitalCritical access hospital210FTE
- Cianbro1208
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,763 people in all across the county; Bingham has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bingham’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 Somerset County.
Bingham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bingham13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bingham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bingham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.