Garland, Maine.
. Bangor, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,272 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
Living in Garland, Penobscot County, Maine
Garland is a town of 1,026 people in Penobscot County. Half its households earn more than $51,094 a year and half less, against $66,356 across Penobscot County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Garland is a small Maine town where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. The population is older than in most places, and household incomes sit below the county's, with a fair share of residents living below the poverty line. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild and warm, with rain and melted snow adding up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in professional and business services. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than is typical across much of the country, and the usual commute is a fairly long one. Across Penobscot County, some of the largest workplaces are Eastern Maine Medical Center, the University of Maine and Husson University.
Things to do. The outdoors is the main draw, and most of it is a longer drive away. Pushaw Lake is a lake for fishing and boating, and Peaks-Kenny State Park is a protected area with woods and water. For something indoors, Sangerville Town Hall is a theatre, also a longer drive away.
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- 361households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 7%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 27° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 57°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the East Sangerville 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; Garland has none 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.
Garland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Garland6
Zip codes with a Garland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Garland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.