Kittery, Maine.
Typical home $684,485 (+4.1% in a year), asking rent $2,411 (-4.0%). Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,120 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26,782 +4%
- $657,703$684,485 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $138,433 +25%
- $546,052$684,485 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.
- Kittery$3,593
- 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 Kittery, ME rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Kittery, ME fell 4.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Kittery runs $2,461/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $4,871 a month against $2,411 rent: a $3,593 mortgage payment, plus $546 property tax and $733 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Kittery
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$4,871
- Renting$2,411
- Mortgage only$3,593
Property tax · $546/mo 0.96% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for York County, ME
Insurance & upkeep · $733/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Kittery, York County, Maine
Kittery, in York County, had 4,973 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $84,730 a year and half less, against $88,333 across York County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 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. Kittery is a small coastal community on the Piscataqua River, on the Maine side of the border with New Hampshire. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line. A good share of adults have a four-year degree, and homes and rents are expensive. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, and a lot of snow falls each year. Summers are warm, and the year brings plenty of rain as well.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Kittery are Kittery Public Schools, the Town of Kittery and Messer North America, an industrial gases manufacturer. Commutes are short, and a fair number of people work from home. Across York County, unemployment is low and the number of jobs has held roughly steady.
Things to do. Fort McClary, Fort Stark and Fort William and Mary are old forts in or beside town, and the Piscataqua River runs alongside. Strawbery Banke, a museum, is also in or beside town. Odiorne Point State Park, a protected area on the coast, is a short drive away.
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- 2,532households
- 47%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 21%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 33° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 60°. About 65 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenland weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kittery
- Kittery Public SchoolsSchool district216FTE
- Town of KitteryPolice departments78
- Messer North AmericaIndustrial gases manufacturing24
- Kittery EstatesSenior living23
- Home2 Suites by Hilton KitteryHotels, resort, without casinos22
- Town of Kittery Recreation DepartmentCommunity recreation programs, government22
- Town of Kittery Fire DepartmentFire departments)21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 190 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively 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 Kittery’s census tracts, 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 York County and the Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
Kittery home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kittery$684,485
- 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 Kittery 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.
- Kittery24.73%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kittery34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kittery12
Zip codes with a Kittery address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kittery — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Kittery
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03904 | Kittery | 8,389 | $2,403 | $648,249 |
| 03905 | Kittery Point | 2,084 | — | $843,726 |