Steuben, Maine.
Typical home $279,130 (-1.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$854 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,420 -1%
- $282,550$279,130 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,336 +19%
- $233,795$279,130 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.
- Steuben$1,465
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Steuben, ME fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Steuben, Washington County, Maine
Steuben is a town of 1,129 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $76,466 a year and half less, against $56,024 across Washington County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Steuben is a small coastal town in Washington County, Maine, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for this part of the state. Winters are cold, with January highs hovering around freezing, and summers are mild; a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the course of a year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades, and farming, forestry and mining also well represented. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are Woodland Pulp, Down East Community Hospital and Calais Public Schools. The typical commute is fairly long, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a short drive away, as are several rivers, including the Narraguagus River and the Harrington River. A longer drive brings you to Acadia National Park, and to Great Wass Island Preserve, another protected area.
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- 578households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents 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 32° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 60°. About 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Acadia Np weather station, 18 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; Steuben 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.
Steuben home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Steuben$279,130
- Maine$412,002
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Steuben 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.
- Steuben16.89%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Steuben22
Zip codes with a Steuben address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Steuben — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.