Hancock, Maine.
Typical home $364,761 (-0.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,052 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $818 -0%
- $365,579$364,761 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,061 +11%
- $327,700$364,761 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.
- Hancock$1,915
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 32 years.
Typical home values in Hancock, ME fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hancock, Hancock County, Maine
Hancock is a town of 2,466 people in Hancock County. Half its households earn more than $72,285 a year and half less, against $72,744 across Hancock County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Hancock County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hancock is a small coastal town in Hancock County, Maine, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes sit just a little below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by a fair share of adults. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and snow a regular part of the season, while July brings the warmest days, comfortably mild rather than hot. Rain and melted snow add up to a generous amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others in the building trades, professional and business services, or banks, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces in town are Hancock Public Schools, the frozen fruit and vegetable processor Jasper Wyman & Son, and Lamoine Public Schools. The commute to work is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Lamoine State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as are several rivers, including the Union River and the Skillings River. Farther afield, a longer drive reaches Acadia National Park, one of the best known places in the state. The Abbe Museum is also a longer drive away for an afternoon indoors.
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- 1,147households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hancock County had 23,626 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 57°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the East Surry weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hancock
- Hancock Public SchoolsSchool district52FTE
- Jasper Wyman & SonFrozen fruit and vegetable processing36
- Lamoine Public SchoolsSchool district31FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 36 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 weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Hancock 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 Hancock County.
Hancock home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hancock$364,761
- 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.
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.
- Hancock14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Hancock address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hancock — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.