Eliot, Maine.
Typical home $609,952 (+0.6% in a year). Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,768 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,723 +1%
- $606,229$609,952 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $110,954 +22%
- $498,998$609,952 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.
- Eliot$3,201
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Eliot, ME rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eliot, York County, Maine
Eliot is a town of 6,717 people in York County. Half its households earn more than $101,522 a year and half less, against $88,333 across York County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in York County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eliot is a small town on the Maine side of the Piscataqua River, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run higher than across York County, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and typical home values are high. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm but mild by comparison. The year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Across York County, some of the largest workplaces are Pratt & Whitney North Berwick Parts Center, Southern Maine Health Care and the University of New England. The typical commute is moderate, and a fair number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county has stayed low, and job numbers have barely changed over the past year.
Things to do. Odiorne Point State Park is a protected shoreline area a short drive away, and Vaughan Woods State Park is another protected area, also a short drive off. For a bit of local history, Fort McClary is an old fort a short drive away, and the Salmon Falls River, also a short drive away, offers a quiet river setting nearby.
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- 3,040households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. York County had 79,603 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 59°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Durham North weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in York County
- Pratt & Whitney North Berwick Parts CenterJet engine components2,309
- Southern Maine Health CareGeneral hospital1,478FTE
- University of New EnglandUniversity or college1,322
- SMHC Hosptial BiddefordGeneral medical and surgical hospitals994
- York HospitalGeneral hospital816FTE
- RSU 06/msad 06 SchoolsSchool district812FTE
- Sanford Public SchoolsSchool district644FTE
- RSU 60/msad 60 SchoolsSchool district596FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 149 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,243 people in all across the county; Eliot has two 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across York County, 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 York County and the Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
Eliot home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eliot$609,952
- Maine$412,002
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Eliot 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.
- Eliot18.52%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Eliot22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Eliot10
Zip codes with a Eliot address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eliot — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.