Cumberland County · Maine
Portland, ME housing costs
What a home costs to buy and to rent here, how old the housing stock is, and how much of a paycheck rent takes — all from Census ACS 5-year estimates.
Quick answer
The median home in Portland, ME is worth $452,600 and median gross rent is $1,487 a month. That is 49% above the national median home value of $303,400. 46.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, against 65% nationally.
- Median home value
- $452,600#25 of 94 metros
- Median gross rent
- $1,487/mo#31 of 94 metros
- Owner-occupied
- 46.7%US average 65%
- Median year built
- 1946Half the homes here are older than this
Can a median household here buy a median home?
Price-to-income is the plainest affordability yardstick there is.
Portland's median household earns $74,129 a year while the median home is worth $452,600. That is a price-to-income ratio of 6.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally. Lenders have historically treated anything above 4× as stretched. Renters at the median put 29.2% of household income into gross rent; 30% is the federal threshold for “cost-burdened”.
Related data for Portland
The same household, seen from three angles.
Tables B25077, B25064, B25003, B25035 and B25071, 2019-2023 ACS 5-year, Census place 2,360,545. Values are place-level, not metro-area-wide.