Hermon, Maine.
Typical home $363,337 (+2.0% in a year). Bangor, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,096 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,153 +2%
- $356,184$363,337 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,465 +24%
- $293,872$363,337 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.
- Hermon$1,907
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Hermon, ME rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hermon, Penobscot County, Maine
Hermon is a town of 6,461 people in Penobscot County. Half its households earn more than $96,629 a year and half less, against $66,356 across Penobscot County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hermon is a town in Penobscot County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run well above the county's. Residents tend to be of middle age, and more of them hold a four-year degree than you might expect for a small Maine town. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and the rain and melted snow are spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, the building trades, and banks, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces in Hermon are Northeast Paving, Hermon Public Schools and Bison Transport USA. Commutes are of moderate length, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. Ecotat Gardens and Arboretum, a botanical garden, is in or beside town. A short drive away are Pushaw Lake and the University of Maine Museum of Art. For a longer outing, Fort Knox is a historic fort a longer drive away.
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- 2,701households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 9%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 28° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 59°. About 75 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bangor International Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hermon
- Northeast PavingHighway construction235
- Hermon Public SchoolsSchool district226FTE
- Bison Transport USA - HermonGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload141
- Sullivan & MerrittPaper or pulp mill construction120
- Uniship Courier ServicesCourier services71
- Mathews Brothers HermonWindow sashes, vinyl, manufacturing66
- Pine Tree Waste - HermonWaste collection services, nonhazardous solid51
- Modern Pest ServicesPest control services28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 764 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
- 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.
Hermon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hermon$363,337
- 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 2 Hermon listings — 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.
- Hermon45.33%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hermon36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hermon9
Zip codes with a Hermon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hermon — 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.