West Bath, Maine.
Typical home $536,717 (+1.0% in a year). Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,738 (+161%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,235 +1%
- $531,481$536,717 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $146,713 +38%
- $390,004$536,717 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.
- West Bath$2,817
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in West Bath, ME rose 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in West Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine
West Bath is a town of 1,910 people in Sagadahoc County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Sagadahoc County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. West Bath is a small town in Sagadahoc County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own, and very few households fall below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild and pleasant, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year, and a good many adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in town are West Bath Public Schools, Brackley Electric, which does low voltage electrical work, and Pine Tree Waste - Bath, a waste collection service. The typical commute is fairly short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Maine Maritime Museum is in or beside town, and Popham Beach State Park and the Popham Colony archaeological site are each a short drive away. The Sheepscot River, also a short drive off, is a pleasant place to be near the water. Those who like museums can also reach the Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art with a short drive.
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- 814households
- 51%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sagadahoc County had 17,054 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 57°. About 72 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bath weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in West Bath
- Brackley ElectricLow voltage electrical work98
- Pine Tree Waste - BathWaste collection services, nonhazardous solid34
- West Bath Public SchoolsSchool district33FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 132 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Sagadahoc 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 Sagadahoc County and the Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
West Bath home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- West Bath$536,717
- 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.
- West Bath11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a West Bath address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls West Bath — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.