Westbrook, Maine.
Typical home $456,345 (+1.8% in a year), asking rent $2,325 . Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,388 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,171 +2%
- $448,174$456,345 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $94,901 +26%
- $361,444$456,345 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.
- Westbrook$2,395
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Westbrook, ME rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Westbrook, Cumberland County, Maine
Westbrook is a city of 20,400 people in Cumberland County. Half its households earn more than $85,038 a year and half less, against $95,677 across Cumberland County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Westbrook was 2.7% in August 2026, and Cumberland County had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Westbrook is a small city in Cumberland County, with a population that skews younger than you might expect. Incomes run below the county's, and renting is common alongside owning, with typical rents running high next to the cost of buying. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are pleasantly warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and banks, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces in Westbrook are IDEXX World Campus, Spring Harbor Hospital and Westbrook Public Schools. Many people have a four-year degree, and most have a fairly short drive to work, though some work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Portland Museum of Art is one of the places to see art, and Deering Oaks is a park for a walk or an afternoon outside. The Presumpscot River is also close by for time near the water. For a day out, Higgins Beach is a beach a longer drive away.
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- 9,138households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cumberland County had 194,746 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 61°. About 69 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Portland International Jetport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Westbrook
- IDEXX World CampusCorporate2,475
- Spring Harbor HospitalPsychiatric hospital911FTE
- Westbrook Public SchoolsSchool district538FTE
- New England Cancer SpecialistsOncologists' offices483
- E.S. Boulos CompanyElectric contracting398
- Demoulas Super Markets321
- SyscoGeneral-line groceries merchant wholesalers237
- Kenetic Infrastructure GroupLand surveying services207
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,156 people in all. 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 weatherVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Westbrook’s census tracts, 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 Cumberland County and the Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
Westbrook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Westbrook$456,345
- 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 5 Westbrook listings, and the typical home goes pending in 8 days — 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.
- Westbrook19.49%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Westbrook8
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Westbrook60
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Westbrook25
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Westbrook$461,929
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Westbrook101.58%
Zip codes with a Westbrook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Westbrook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.