Edgecomb, Maine.
Typical home $407,377 (+1.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,178 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,696 +2%
- $400,682$407,377 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,762 +13%
- $360,615$407,377 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.
- Edgecomb$2,138
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Edgecomb, ME rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Edgecomb, Lincoln County, Maine
Edgecomb is a town of 1,188 people in Lincoln County. Half its households earn more than $108,750 a year and half less, against $76,875 across Lincoln County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% 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 people in Lincoln County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Edgecomb is a small town where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes run well above the county's. Poverty is less common here than one might expect, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days and the year as a whole is fairly wet.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Lincoln County, the largest workplaces include LincolnHealth, Hannaford and Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a fair number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Dodge Point Preserve is a park in or beside town, good for a walk close to home. A short drive away, the Wiscasset Jail and Museum offers a look at local history, and Fort William Henry is an old fort. For a longer outing, the Maine Maritime Museum is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 539households
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Lincoln County 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 32° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 58°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wiscasset Airport weather station, 5 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; Edgecomb 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.
Edgecomb home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Edgecomb$407,377
- Maine$412,002
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Edgecomb 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.
- Edgecomb28.55%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Edgecomb21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Edgecomb address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Edgecomb — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.