Harrington, Maine.
Typical home $225,055 (+0.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$703 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,861 +1%
- $223,193$225,055 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,015 +22%
- $184,040$225,055 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.
- Harrington$1,181
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Harrington, ME rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Harrington, Washington County, Maine
Harrington is a town of 962 people in Washington County. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Harrington is a small coastal Maine town where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, a much higher share than is typical across the country. Incomes across Washington County run below the national picture, and a notable portion of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while summers stay mild and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, farming and forestry, and manufacturing also employing many. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are Woodland Pulp, Down East Community Hospital and Calais Public Schools. The typical commute is short, very few people work from home, and the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier, with unemployment a little higher than it was then.
Things to do. Several rivers run in or beside town, including the Narraguagus, Harrington and Pleasant rivers, which suit time spent along the water. A short drive away are Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and Reef Point Estate, a garden. Acadia National Park is a longer drive away for a full day out.
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- 415households
- 14%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 10,135 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 76° and lows near 56°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jonesboro weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Woodland PulpManufacturing304
- Down East Community HospitalCritical access hospital246FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters208
- Calais Public SchoolsSchool district173FTE
- RSU 37/msad 37 SchoolsSchool district152FTE
- Calais Community HospitalCritical access hospital125FTE
- HannafordGrocery stores124
- Jasper Wyman & SonFruits, frozen, manufacturing123
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,026 people in all across the county; Harrington has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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 weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Washington 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 Washington County.
Harrington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Harrington$225,055
- 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.
- Harrington10
Zip codes with a Harrington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Harrington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Harrington
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04658 | Milbridge | 1,222 | — | $264,966 |
| 04643 | Harrington | 917 | — | $225,480 |