Corinth, Maine.
Typical home $256,273 (+0.4% in a year). Bangor, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$850 (+171%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $974 +0%
- $255,299$256,273 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,140 +41%
- $181,134$256,273 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.
- Corinth$1,345
- 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 Corinth, ME rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Corinth, Penobscot County, Maine
Corinth is a town of 2,900 people in Penobscot County. Half its households earn more than $64,229 a year and half less, against $66,356 across Penobscot County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Penobscot County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Corinth is a small town in Penobscot County, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect in a college-linked region. Winters are cold and long, with January the coldest month and a great deal of snow, while July brings warm days and rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with the building trades, shops and manufacturing close behind. Across Penobscot County, some of the largest workplaces are Eastern Maine Medical Center, the University of Maine and Husson University. The commute is fairly long, and a good number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Pushaw Lake is a lake a longer drive away, and Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area, also a longer drive away. Kenduskeag Stream is a river worth the longer drive for anyone who likes water. The University of Maine Museum of Art offers a museum visit, likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 1,211households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Penobscot County had 71,782 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 72 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Corinna weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Penobscot County
- Eastern Maine Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,272FTE
- University of MaineUniversity or college2,590
- St Joseph HospitalGeneral hospital902FTE
- Husson UniversityUniversity or college645
- Bangor Public SchoolsSchool district583FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters517
- RSU 19 SchoolsSchool district507FTE
- Acadia HospitalPsychiatric hospital483FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 174 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 18,783 people in all across the county; Corinth has one 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Penobscot County, 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 Penobscot County and the Bangor, ME metro.
Corinth home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Corinth$256,273
- 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.
- Corinth9
Zip codes with a Corinth address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Corinth — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.