Etna, Maine.
Typical home $266,937 (-0.7% in a year). Bangor, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$714 (+104%) since Feb 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,893 -1%
- $268,830$266,937 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,126 +8%
- $246,810$266,937 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.
- Etna$1,401
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 44 years.
Typical home values in Etna, ME fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Etna, Penobscot County, Maine
Etna is a town of 1,226 people in Penobscot County. Half its households earn more than $72,379 a year and half less, against $66,356 across Penobscot County. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% 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 people in Penobscot County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Etna is a small town in Penobscot County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole, and the typical home is worth a good deal less than many people expect to pay elsewhere. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing a good number. Across Penobscot County, some of the largest workplaces are Eastern Maine Medical Center, the University of Maine and St. Joseph Hospital. The commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Carlton Pond Waterfowl Production Area, a protected area, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Unity Pond is a lake a longer drive away, and Fort Knox is a fort that is also a longer drive away. Eaton Mountain, a ski area, is another longer drive, and fits the town's snowy winters.
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- 493households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Penobscot County 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; Etna 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
- 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.
Etna home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Etna$266,937
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Etna address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Etna — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.