Enfield, Maine.
Typical home $235,488 (+12.0% in a year). Bangor, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$780 (+171%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,218 +12%
- $210,270$235,488 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,952 +46%
- $161,535$235,488 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.
- Enfield$1,236
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Enfield, ME rose 12.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Enfield, Penobscot County, Maine
Enfield is a town of 1,435 people in Penobscot County. Half its households earn more than $62,667 a year and half less, against $66,356 across Penobscot County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Enfield is a small town in Penobscot County, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, a much higher share than across the county as a whole. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values sit in a range many longtime owners would recognize. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings the warmest days, which stay comfortable rather than hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades also employing many. Across Penobscot County, the largest workplaces include Eastern Maine Medical Center, the University of Maine and Bangor Public Schools. The drive to work is fairly long for most people, and very few work from home. Unemployment across the county has edged up slightly from a year ago, and the number of jobs has dipped a little.
Things to do. The Piscataquis River and the Passadumkeag River are both a short drive away and give access to quiet water and riverbank. Howland Forest, also a short drive off, is a protected area of woods for walking. For a longer outing, Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 656households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 5%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 26° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lincoln Sanitary District/wtp weather station, 7 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; Enfield 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.
Enfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Enfield$235,488
- 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.
- Enfield8
Zip codes with a Enfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Enfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.