Bowdoin, Maine.
Typical home $415,515 (+12.4% in a year). Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,321 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $45,752 +12%
- $369,763$415,515 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $118,005 +40%
- $297,510$415,515 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.
- Bowdoin$2,181
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Bowdoin, ME rose 12.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bowdoin, Sagadahoc County, Maine
Bowdoin is a town of 3,136 people in Sagadahoc County. Half its households earn more than $91,239 a year and half less, against $87,806 across Sagadahoc County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Sagadahoc County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sagadahoc 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bowdoin is a small Maine town where winters are long, cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow piling up through the season. Summers are pleasantly warm rather than hot, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and homes here are valued well above what many parts of the country see.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Across Sagadahoc County, some of the largest workplaces are Bath Iron Works, which builds naval ships, and the area's school districts. The commute is on the long side, and a fair number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county is low and has barely moved from a year ago.
Things to do. A short drive brings you to several rivers, including the Cathance River and the Abagadasset River, for time near the water. A longer drive leads to the Maine Maritime Museum, and to Popham Colony, an archaeological site tied to early settlement on this coast. The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is another museum within a longer drive.
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- 1,317households
- 11%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Sagadahoc County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sagadahoc County had 17,054 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 56°. About 78 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Durham weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sagadahoc County
- General DynamicsNaval ship building6,638
- RSU 75/msad 75 SchoolsSchool district446FTE
- RSU 01 - Lkrsu SchoolsSchool district357FTE
- Demoulas Super Markets217
- Reed & ReedWind power structure construction198
- TargetDiscount department stores169
- HannafordGrocery stores159
- Grace ManagementAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities155
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,468 people in all across the county; Bowdoin has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Sagadahoc County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Sagadahoc County and the Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
Bowdoin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bowdoin$415,515
- 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.
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bowdoin9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bowdoin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bowdoin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.