Perry, Maine.
Typical home $201,854 (+2.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$623 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,054 +2%
- $197,800$201,854 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,086 +23%
- $164,768$201,854 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.
- Perry$1,059
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Perry, ME rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Perry, Washington County, Maine
Perry is a town of 802 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $82,056 a year and half less, against $56,024 across Washington County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Perry is a small coastal town in Washington County, Maine, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes are well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect in this part of the state. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers stay mild, and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow as well.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, farming and forestry, and manufacturing also employing many. Across Washington County, the largest workplaces include Woodland Pulp, Down East Community Hospital and Calais Public Schools. Unemployment across the county has edged up slightly from a year earlier, and the county has a few fewer jobs than it did the year before. A typical commute is fairly long, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. The Little River runs in or beside town, and the Pennamaquan River is a short drive away. Reversing Falls Park, also a short drive off, is a place to see the tide at work. For a longer outing, Roosevelt Campobello International Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 293households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 10,135 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 56°. About 95 inches of snow and 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Robbinston weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Woodland PulpManufacturing304
- Down East Community HospitalCritical access hospital246FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters208
- Calais Public SchoolsSchool district173FTE
- RSU 37/msad 37 SchoolsSchool district152FTE
- Calais Community HospitalCritical access hospital125FTE
- HannafordGrocery stores124
- Jasper Wyman & SonFruits, frozen, manufacturing123
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,026 people in all across the county; Perry 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Washington County, 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 Washington County.
Perry home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Perry$201,854
- 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.
- Perry9
Zip codes with a Perry address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Perry — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.