Searsport, Maine.
Typical home $325,581 (+2.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$965 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,499 +2%
- $318,082$325,581 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,825 +25%
- $260,756$325,581 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.
- Searsport$1,709
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Searsport, ME rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Searsport, Waldo County, Maine
Searsport, in Waldo County, had 999 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Waldo County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Waldo 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Searsport is a very small community on the Maine coast, in Waldo County, where neighbors tend to know one another. Winters are colder than in most of the country and bring a lot of snow, while summers stay mild, with the warmest days in July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily across the year. Homes here are worth more than many people expect for a town this size, and the county's household incomes are a little above what many rural areas see.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. In town itself, the largest workplaces include RSU 20 Schools, Irving Oil Terminals and Sprague Operating Resources- Searsport. Unemployment across Waldo County is low and close to where it stood a year ago, and the trip to work is short for most people.
Things to do. The Penobscot Marine Museum is in or beside town, and Moose Point State Park, a protected area, is just as close. A short drive away are Fort Point State Park and Fort Knox, a fort that visitors can walk through. The Penobscot River is also close by for time along the water.
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- 15 mintypical commute
What people in Waldo County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Waldo County had 11,300 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 57°. About 72 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Belfast weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Searsport
- RSU 20 SchoolsSchool district139FTE
- Irving Oil TerminalsTrucking, specialized freight, local39
- Sprague Operating Resources- SearsportTerminals, petroleum32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 71 people in all. School districts come 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 weatherVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Searsport’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Waldo County.
Searsport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Searsport$325,581
- 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 Searsport 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.
- Searsport39.44%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Searsport23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Searsport6
Zip codes with a Searsport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Searsport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.