Bowdoinham, Maine.
Typical home $385,756 (+1.2% in a year). Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,219 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,550 +1%
- $381,206$385,756 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $95,678 +33%
- $290,079$385,756 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.
- Bowdoinham$2,025
- 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 Bowdoinham, ME rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Bowdoinham, Sagadahoc County, Maine
Bowdoinham, in Sagadahoc County, had 734 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bowdoinham is a very small community on tidal rivers in Sagadahoc County, with homes that cost more than the typical home across much of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and a good deal milder than the winters are harsh. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Across Sagadahoc County, the largest workplaces include Bath Iron Works, a naval shipbuilder, and a local school district. Unemployment in the county is low and little changed from a year ago, though there are slightly fewer jobs than the year before, and the typical commute is a bit longer than many people are used to.
Things to do. The Abagadasset and Cathance Rivers run in or beside town, and the Muddy River is a short drive away. Also a short drive off is the Maine Maritime Museum, and a longer drive leads to Popham Colony, an archaeological site.
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- 29 mintypical commute
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 31° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 57°. About 72 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bath weather station, 7 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; Bowdoinham 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 stormsVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bowdoinham’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 Sagadahoc County and the Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
Bowdoinham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bowdoinham$385,756
- 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 4 Bowdoinham 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bowdoinham16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bowdoinham6
Zip codes with a Bowdoinham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bowdoinham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.