Hollis, Maine.
Typical home $430,568 (+2.6% in a year). Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,212 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,077 +3%
- $419,491$430,568 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,714 +19%
- $361,855$430,568 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.
- Hollis$2,260
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Hollis, ME rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hollis, York County, Maine
Hollis is a town of 4,745 people in York County. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in York County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hollis is a small town in York County where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, a much higher share than is typical across the country. Residents are somewhat older than in many places, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Incomes in the county run on the comfortable side, and relatively few people live below the poverty line.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also common. Across York County, the largest workplaces include Southern Maine Health Care, York Hospital and the University of New England. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a noticeable group of people work from home. Unemployment in the county is low and close to where it stood a year ago, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. The Little Ossipee River is a short drive away, a good spot for time by the water. Farther afield, Sebago Lake is a large reservoir for boating and swimming, and Higgins Beach is a stretch of Maine shoreline, both a longer drive away. Winters here are cold and snowy, with a great deal of snow each year, while summers are pleasantly warm.
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- 1,789households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. York County had 79,603 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 56°. About 81 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hollis weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in York County
- Pratt & Whitney North Berwick Parts CenterJet engine components2,309
- Southern Maine Health CareGeneral hospital1,478FTE
- University of New EnglandUniversity or college1,322
- SMHC Hosptial BiddefordGeneral medical and surgical hospitals994
- York HospitalGeneral hospital816FTE
- RSU 06/msad 06 SchoolsSchool district812FTE
- Sanford Public SchoolsSchool district644FTE
- RSU 60/msad 60 SchoolsSchool district596FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 149 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,243 people in all across the county; Hollis has one 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across York County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 York County and the Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
Hollis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hollis$430,568
- 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.
- Hollis14
Zip codes with a Hollis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hollis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.