Maine, New York.
Typical home $214,034 (+8.8% in a year). Binghamton, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$142 (+15%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $17,351 +9%
- $196,682$214,034 since Sep 2025
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.
- Maine$1,123
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Maine, NY rose 8.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Maine, Broome County, New York
Maine is a town of 5,168 people in Broome County. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Broome County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Broome 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Maine is a small town in Broome County, New York, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own, far more than across the county as a whole. Homes here are priced modestly, and the share of adults with a four-year degree is lower than in many college towns nearby. Winters are cold and long, with January highs hovering near freezing and a great deal of snow, while July brings pleasantly warm days.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, restaurants and hotels, or in manufacturing. The largest workplaces across Broome County include UHS Hospitals, Binghamton University and BAE Systems. Most people have a fairly short drive to work, and a good number work from home.
Things to do. Chenango Valley State Park is a protected area a short drive away, good for walking and time outdoors, and the Chenango River runs close by. The George W. Johnson Park Carousel, a well-loved tourist attraction, is also a short drive off. For a longer outing, the Binghamton Zoo at Ross Park is a longer drive away.
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- 2,330households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Broome County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Broome County had 83,845 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 59°. About 86 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Binghamton weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Broome County
- UHS HospitalsGeneral hospital4,034FTE
- UHS Wilson Medical CenterGeneral medical and surgical hospitals3,079
- Binghamton UniversityUniversity or college3,038
- Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial HospGeneral hospital2,158FTE
- BAE SystemsLoading printed circuit boards1,303
- Binghamton City School DistrictSchool district1,066FTE
- Union-endicott Central School DistrictSchool district749FTE
- Children's Home of Wyoming ConferenceOther residential care facilites728
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 189 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 25,878 people in all across the county; Maine has two 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Broome 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 Broome County and the Binghamton, NY metro.
Maine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Maine$214,034
- New York$524,942
- 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.
Zip codes with a Maine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Maine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.