Washington, Maine.
Typical home $342,759 (+2.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,051 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,097 +2%
- $335,663$342,759 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,597 +17%
- $293,163$342,759 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.
- Washington$1,799
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Washington, ME rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Washington, Knox County, Maine
Washington is a town of 1,592 people in Knox County. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% 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 schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Washington is a small inland town in Knox County where almost everyone lives in a home they own, far more than across the county as a whole. Household incomes here are lower than the county's, and a notable share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm, comfortable summer days and a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in manufacturing and in shops. Across Knox County, some of the largest workplaces are Penobscot Bay Medical Center and Douglas Dynamics. Commutes are fairly long, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Damariscotta Lake State Park is a protected area on a lake a short drive away, and the West Branch Sheepscot River is also close by. A longer drive brings you to Camden Hills State Park, another protected area, and to the Farnsworth Art Museum, the best known place on the list of nearby sights.
Report a mistake
- 684households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 15%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, 13 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; Washington 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.
Washington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Washington$342,759
- 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.
- Washington13
Zip codes with a Washington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Washington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.