Gorham, Maine.
Typical home $540,506 (+1.8% in a year), asking rent $2,199 . Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,667 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,782 +2%
- $530,723$540,506 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $124,137 +30%
- $416,369$540,506 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.
- Gorham$2,837
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Gorham, ME rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gorham, Cumberland County, Maine
Gorham, in Cumberland County, had 7,469 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $128,190 a year and half less, against $95,677 across Cumberland County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Cumberland County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gorham is a small community in Cumberland County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and renters are fewer than in many places. Incomes run well above the county's, and the share of households living below the poverty line is small. Residents tend to be of middle age, and a four-year degree is common among adults.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in the building trades. A good number work from home. Among the largest workplaces in Gorham are Gorham Public Schools, Hannaford and Senior Lifestyle. Unemployment across Cumberland County is low and has barely changed over the past year.
Things to do. The North Branch Little River and the Little River run in or beside town, and the Presumpscot River is a short drive away. A short drive also brings you to the Portland Museum of Art and to Scarborough Marsh, a protected area. Higgins Beach is a longer drive. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm.
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- 2,554households
- 52%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cumberland County had 194,746 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 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 61°. About 69 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Portland International Jetport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gorham
- Gorham Public SchoolsSchool district519FTE
- HannafordGrocery stores184
- Senior LifestyleRest homes with nursing care161
- Sodexo at USM Brooks DiningFood service contractors75
- LKQMotor vehicle parts, used, merchant wholesalers25
- Goodwill NNEUsed merch stores23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 468 people in all. School districts come 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gorham’s census tracts, 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 Cumberland County and the Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
Gorham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gorham$540,506
- Maine$412,002
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Gorham listings, and the typical home goes pending in 8 days — 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.
- Gorham31.89%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Gorham8
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gorham44
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Gorham22
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Gorham$613,998
- United States$371,553
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Gorham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gorham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.