Windham, Maine.
Typical home $492,051 (+3.7% in a year), asking rent $2,400 . Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,512 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,703 +4%
- $474,348$492,051 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $109,243 +29%
- $382,809$492,051 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.
- Windham$2,583
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Windham, ME rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Windham, Cumberland County, Maine
Windham is a town of 18,434 people in Cumberland County. Half its households earn more than $107,934 a year and half less, against $95,677 across Cumberland County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Cumberland County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Windham is a town in Cumberland County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and far more so than is typical across the country. Household incomes run higher than across the county, few residents live below the poverty line, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and precipitation is fairly generous through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in banks, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces in Windham are RSU 14 Schools, Walmart and Hannaford. Commutes are on the longer side, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Sebago Lake, a reservoir, and the Pleasant River are both a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Higgins Beach, a beach, and to the Portland Museum of Art.
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- 7,900households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 19%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 29° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 60°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Windham 2NW weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Windham
- RSU 14 SchoolsSchool district594FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters349
- HannafordGrocery stores230
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter148
- Shaws SupermarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores92
- SDIX-MaineBlood derivative in-vitro diagnostic substances manufacturing54
- Windham MillworkMoldings, wood and covered wood, manufacturing52
- Goodwill NNEUsed merch stores44
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,094 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
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Cumberland 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 Cumberland County and the Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
Windham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Windham$492,051
- 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 Windham listings, and the typical home goes pending in 12 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Windham31.89%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Windham12
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Windham91
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Windham40
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Windham$510,097
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Windham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Windham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.