North Haven, Maine.
Typical home $752,541 (+7.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$361 (+10%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $54,201 +8%
- $698,340$752,541 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.
- North Haven$3,950
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in North Haven, ME rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in North Haven, Knox County, Maine
North Haven is a town of 417 people in Knox County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Knox County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Haven is a very small island town in Maine, where people know one another and most homes are lived in by their owners. Home values run high, while the share of people living below the poverty line is fairly modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in the building trades, in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in government. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and a good number work from home. Commutes are very short. Across Knox County, the largest workplaces include Penobscot BAY Medical Center and the Douglas Dynamics plant, and unemployment there is low and close to where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. A short drive away, Beech Hill Preserve is a protected area for walking, and the Megunticook River and Goose River are nearby rivers. Farther afield, the Farnsworth Art Museum offers a museum visit, and Camden Hills State Park is a protected area for the outdoors. Both are a longer drive away.
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- 206households
- 55%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 8 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Knox County had 17,014 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 60°. About 69 inches of snow and 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Rockport Nnw weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Knox County
- Penobscot Bay Medical CenterGeneral hospital804FTE
- RSU 40/msad 40 SchoolsSchool district405FTE
- RSU 13 SchoolsSchool district382FTE
- Douglas DynamicsSnow plow attachments manufacturing299
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters281
- HannafordGrocery stores175
- RSU 28/msad 28 SchoolsSchool district168FTE
- Camden Hills Regional High SchoolHigh schools162
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 34 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,292 people in all across the county; North Haven has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Knox County, 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 Knox County.
North Haven home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- North Haven$752,541
- 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 Haven6
Zip codes with a North Haven address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls North Haven — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.