Owls Head, Maine.
Typical home $491,275 (-2.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,454 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $12,095 -2%
- $503,369$491,275 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,316 +12%
- $436,959$491,275 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.
- Owls Head$2,579
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Owls Head, ME fell 2.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Owls Head, Knox County, Maine
Owls Head is a town of 1,504 people in Knox County. Half its households earn more than $87,325 a year and half less, against $74,096 across Knox County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 people in Knox 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Owls Head is a small coastal town in Knox County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run above the county's. Typical home values are high, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and getting to work is quick for most people. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild, with July the warmest and highs staying comfortable.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing also employing many. Across Knox County, some of the largest workplaces are Penobscot Bay Medical Center, a pair of local school districts, and Douglas Dynamics. Unemployment across the county is low and close to where it stood a year earlier, and the county has added a small number of jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Birch Point State Park is in or beside town, a protected shoreline area close to home. A short drive away are the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Strand Theatre, and a longer drive brings you to Camden Hills State Park. Several small rivers, including the Oyster River and the Weskeag River, are also a short drive away.
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- 669households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Knox County 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 35° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 74° and lows near 56°. About 53 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tenants Harbor weather station, 9 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; Owls Head has none 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.
Owls Head home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Owls Head$491,275
- 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.
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.
- Owls Head9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Owls Head address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Owls Head — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.