Kennebunk, Maine.
Typical home $617,779 (+1.8% in a year), asking rent $2,341 . Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,907 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,763 +2%
- $607,015$617,779 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $128,885 +26%
- $488,894$617,779 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.
- Kennebunk$3,243
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Kennebunk, ME rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kennebunk, York County, Maine
Kennebunk, in York County, had 5,776 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $95,169 a year and half less, against $88,333 across York County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% 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 people in York 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kennebunk is a small community in York County, Maine, where most homes are lived in by their owners and incomes run above the county's. Typical home values are high, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while July is the warmest, with mild summer highs and plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in town are Hannaford, the grocery chain, Hancock Lumber Company, which runs a home center and sells building materials, and Genesis HealthCare, a nursing home operator. Unemployment across York County is low and has barely changed from a year earlier, and the number of jobs there has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, lies in or beside town, and the Kennebunk River is a short drive away. The Seashore Trolley Museum is also a short drive away, and the Portland Museum of Art is a longer drive for a day among paintings.
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- 2,962households
- 11%below the poverty line
What people in York County 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 33° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 58°. About 49 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kennebunkport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kennebunk
- HannafordGrocery stores179
- Northeast Coating TechnologiesCoating metals and metal products for the trade146
- Sunrise Senior Living, LLC.Assisted living114
- KennebunkSenior living59
- Genesis HealthCareNursing homes56
- Hancock Lumber CompanyHome centers, building materials29
- KennebunkMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 604 people in all. 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
- 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 in Kennebunk’s census tracts, 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.
Kennebunk home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kennebunk$617,779
- 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 4 Kennebunk listings, and the typical home goes pending in 16 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Kennebunk28.16%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kennebunk99
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kennebunk26
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Kennebunk$568,816
- United States$370,717
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 Kennebunk address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kennebunk — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.