Bremen, Maine.
Typical home $481,270 (+10.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,501 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $43,935 +10%
- $437,335$481,270 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,750 +20%
- $402,520$481,270 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.
- Bremen$2,526
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Bremen, ME rose 10.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bremen, Lincoln County, Maine
Bremen is a town of 823 people in Lincoln County. Half its households earn more than $100,000 a year and half less, against $76,875 across Lincoln County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bremen is a small coastal town in Lincoln County, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural stretch of Maine. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is the warmest and still mild. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, other services and manufacturing. Across Lincoln County, the largest workplaces include Lincolnhealth, RSU 12 Schools and Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and a good number work from home, while those who commute have a fairly short drive.
Things to do. The Medomak River runs in or beside town, and Cora F. Cressey, an archaeological site, is close by as well. A short drive away are Fort William Henry, a fort, and the St. George River. For a longer outing, the Farnsworth Art Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 390households
- 54%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 23%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 11,388 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 60°. About 79 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newcastle weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- LH -35 MilesHospitals, general medical and surgical339
- LincolnhealthCritical access hospital320FTE
- RSU 12 SchoolsSchool district230FTE
- HannafordGrocery stores178
- Boothbay-Boothbay Hbr CSDSchool district128FTE
- Coastal Maine Botanical GardensBotanical gardens118
- Wiscasset Public SchoolsSchool district116FTE
- Knickerbocker GroupCustom builders, single-family home113
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,492 people in all across the county; Bremen 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Lincoln 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 Lincoln County.
Bremen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bremen$481,270
- Maine$412,002
- United States$366,157
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.
- Bremen14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bremen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bremen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.