Newport, Maine.
Typical home $261,362 (+4.3% in a year). Bangor, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$873 (+175%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,702 +4%
- $250,660$261,362 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,145 +41%
- $185,217$261,362 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.
- Newport$1,372
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Newport, ME rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newport, Penobscot County, Maine
Newport, in Penobscot County, had 1,690 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $45,127 a year and half less, against $66,356 across Penobscot County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 people in Penobscot 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newport is a small Maine community in Penobscot County, where household incomes run well below the county's and more people live below the poverty line than a typical town would see. Homes here are valued above what the local incomes might suggest. Winters are long and cold, with January highs near the freezing mark at best and lows well below it, and plenty of snow, while summers are pleasantly warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Hannaford, the grocery store, is among the largest workplaces in town, along with Pye Barker Fire & Safety and Mosaic-Living Innovations-Newport. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the trip to work is a moderate drive for most people.
Things to do. The Sebasticook Lake Fishweir Complex sits in or beside town, a lake with a long history of fishing. A short drive away are the East Branch Sebasticook River and Carlton Pond Waterfowl Production Area, a protected area good for watching birds. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Eaton Mountain, a ski area that suits the snowy winters.
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- 858households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
What people in Penobscot County 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 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 72 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Corinna weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newport
- HannafordGrocery stores100
- Lakeside Concrete CuttingAsbestos abatement services50
- Mosaic-Living Innovations-NewportActivity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 171 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newport’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 Penobscot County and the Bangor, ME metro.
Newport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newport$261,362
- 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 3 Newport 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Newport19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Newport5
Zip codes with a Newport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.