North Berwick, Maine.
Typical home $492,273 (+2.9% in a year). Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,540 (+148%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,840 +3%
- $478,433$492,273 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $117,375 +31%
- $374,898$492,273 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.
- North Berwick$2,584
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in North Berwick, ME rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in North Berwick, York County, Maine
North Berwick, in York County, had 1,721 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. North Berwick is a small community in York County, Maine, where a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than you might expect and few households live below the poverty line. Homes here are valued above what is typical in much of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild and warm in July, with plenty of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. In town, the largest workplaces include the Pratt & Whitney North Berwick Parts Center, which makes jet engine components, Hussey Seating Company, a maker of bleacher seating, and Hannaford, a grocery store. Unemployment across York County is low and about where it stood a year ago, and the county added only a few more jobs than the year before. Commutes are long, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. The Neoutaquet River runs in or beside town, and the Salmon Falls River and the Great Works River are each a short drive away. Vaughan Woods State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Seashore Trolley Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 23%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 9%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 32° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 60°. About 70 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cape Neddick weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in North Berwick
- Pratt & Whitney North Berwick Parts CenterJet engine components2,309
- Hussey Seating CompanyBleacher seating manufacturing336
- HannafordGrocery stores87
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,732 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 stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in North Berwick’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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.
North Berwick home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- North Berwick$492,273
- 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.
- North Berwick15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- North Berwick7
Zip codes with a North Berwick address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls North Berwick — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.