88th pct · 358th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
Home value, one year
+3.1%
as of August 2026
52nd pct · 1,462nd of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
Typical rent
$1,742
as of August 2026
69th pct · 430th of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
Jobs
20,386
as of 2026 Q1-01
71st pct · 912th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
Average weekly wage
$1,116
as of 2026 Q1-01
65th pct · 1,118th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
Years of wages per home
7.3
90th pct · 302nd of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
Typical home value divided by the average annual wage of one covered job.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Typical home $422,707 (Aug 2026), +3.1% over one year, +21.8% over five
88th pct · 358th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.
Item
Value
Distance
Hancock County
$422,707 · +3.1% 1-yr
Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.
Principal and interest of $2,314 a month on $422,707 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $4,836 a month: 47.8% of one job’s pay.
payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $422,707 × 80% = $338,166, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $2,314/mo principal and interest
wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,116 × 52 / 12 = $4,836) = 48% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
years of wages = $422,707 / ($1,116 × 52) = 7.3
price-to-rent = $422,707 / ($1,742 × 12) = 20.2
The wage is one covered job’s average, not a household’s income, so this is the share of a single paycheque and not a mortgage underwriting ratio.
Estimate. Principal and interest on the typical home with 20% down over 30 years at this week's Freddie Mac average rate; compared with the average weekly wage of all jobs covered by unemployment insurance in the area (BLS QCEW), which is pay per job, not household income.
20,386 jobs at 2,875 employers (2026 Q1); -1.3% jobs and +1.2% average weekly wage over the year
71st pct · 912th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.
Item
Value
Distance
Hancock County
20,386 jobs · $1,116/wk · -1.3% YoY
BLS QCEW, all ownerships, third month of the quarter. A location quotient of 1.00 means this county has the national share of its jobs in that sector; 2.00 means twice it. A withheld row is a BLS disclosure code N: the cell is absent, not zero.
NAICS sector
Jobs
Avg weekly wage
Location quotient
Jobs over the year
Retail trade
3,370
$739
1.70
-1.0%
Health care and social assistance
2,719
$1,146
0.89
-1.8%
Accommodation and food services
1,959
$645
1.07
+1.8%
Construction
1,864
$1,140
1.74
+4.4%
Professional and technical services
1,824
$2,160
1.30
-10.1%
Other services
1,024
$1,015
1.68
-3.9%
Manufacturing
800
$1,013
0.49
+0.0%
Finance and insurance
444
$1,867
0.53
-0.7%
Educational services
428
$802
0.98
+10.6%
Administrative and waste services
396
$944
0.34
-19.5%
Arts, entertainment and recreation
366
$990
1.09
+4.6%
Transportation and warehousing
319
$1,173
0.37
+8.5%
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.
$2.9 bn in deposits at 29 offices of 8 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 3,366, highly concentrated. $592.7 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $431.4 m, grants $123.1 m), $29,075 per covered job
FDIC Summary of Deposits: deposits at every insured office as of June 30, annual; HHI is the sum of squared county deposit shares (DOJ 1995 bank merger screen: 1000 / 1800). USAspending: obligations by place of performance for the latest complete federal fiscal year (Oct 1 to Sep 30), what agencies committed, not what they paid out; recipients are legal entities. Per-job divides obligations by BLS QCEW covered employment.
Item
Value
Distance
Bar Harbor Bank & Trust
$1.5 bn · 53.7% share · 8 offices
First National Bank
$383.0 m · 13.3% share · 5 offices
The Camden National Bank
$381.3 m · 13.3% share · 7 offices
Hancock, ME
$592.7 m FY2026 · $29,075/job
MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS
$411.4 m · top recipient FY2026
FDIC Summary of Deposits, June 2026. These are institution offices, not people: the row is a bank's presence in the county.
Institution
Deposits
Share
Offices
Bar Harbor Bank & Trust
$1,543,288,000
53.7%
8
First National Bank
$383,027,000
13.3%
5
The Camden National Bank
$381,250,000
13.3%
7
Machias Savings Bank
$242,852,000
8.4%
2
Bangor Savings Bank
$205,279,000
7.1%
4
Bar Harbor Savings and Loan Association
$73,776,000
2.6%
1
KeyBank National Association
$35,255,000
1.2%
1
Franklin Savings Bank
$10,180,000
0.4%
1
Deposit concentration is 3,366 across 8 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 8 banks with deposits in the county = 53.7² + 13.3² + 13.3² + … (5 more) = 3,366
FDIC Summary of Deposits: deposits at every insured office as of June 30, annual; HHI is the sum of squared county deposit shares (DOJ 1995 bank merger screen: 1000 / 1800). USAspending: obligations by place of performance for the latest complete federal fiscal year (Oct 1 to Sep 30), what agencies committed, not what they paid out; recipients are legal entities. Per-job divides obligations by BLS QCEW covered employment.
USAspending place-of-performance obligations for FY2026, by awarding agency.
USAspending, FY2026, place of performance in this county.
Awarding agency
Obligations
Social Security Administration
$372,737,617
Department of Health and Human Services
$69,791,722
Department of Transportation
$49,770,401
Department of Veterans Affairs
$37,860,513
Department of Defense
$18,505,974
Department of Agriculture
$12,836,814
Department of the Interior
$8,387,325
Department of Homeland Security
$6,609,143
Department of Education
$6,490,420
Department of Housing and Urban Development
$6,185,371
Environmental Protection Agency
$930,000
National Science Foundation
$929,952
That is $29,075 per covered job, against 20,386 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $592.7 m / 20,386 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $29,075
USAspending obligations are recorded where the work is performed, so a prime award performed here is counted here even when the recipient is headquartered elsewhere. Recipients are legal entities, never people.
These are United States, single-gauge, single-state and port series. None of them is keyed to this county.
The national indicator set, unfiltered by place.
Series
Latest
As of
Change
Mississippi River at Memphis, stage · ft
not published
not published
Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage · ft
not published
not published
Ohio River at Louisville, stage · ft
16.50
2026-09-30
-11.7%
Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage · ft
not published
not published
Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) · ft³/s
5,170.00
2026-02-05
-25.3%
Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full · %
71.30
2026-10-01
+0.1%
Laredo truck crossings, monthly · trucks
258,700.00
2026-08-01
-0.4%
Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual · TEU
10,513,167.00
2023-01-01
-13.5%
Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports · ships
6.00
2026-09-22
-14.3%
Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate · $ per 40 ft box
6,830.00
2026-08-01
+7.4%
US diesel retail price · $ per gallon
unavailable
not published
WTI crude oil, spot · $ per barrel
96.16
2026-09-29
-3.2%
30-year fixed mortgage rate · %
7.28
2026-10-01
+3.6%
Housing starts, annual rate · thousands of units
1,275.00
2026-08-01
-2.6%
Building permits, annual rate · thousands of units
1,403.00
2026-08-01
-2.1%
Case-Shiller US home price index · index, Jan 2000 = 100
337.31
2026-07-01
+0.1%
Unemployment rate · %
4.10
2026-08-01
+0.0%
US goods and services trade balance, monthly · $ millions
-88,576.00
2026-07-01
-24.4%
Retail sales excluding food services, monthly · $ millions
646,347.00
2026-08-01
+1.1%
The indicator registry has no county-keyed series and no geographic selection: every entry is national, a named gauge, a single state or a port. They are here as the backdrop the county's own numbers move against, and they are never this county's readings.
FIPS 23009, ME: 9 findings, 3 at a watch level and 6 noted
watchFIPS 23009, ME's covered employment is -1.3% against a year earlier, a watch level here: covered employment below the same quarter a year earlier (BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
Period 2026 Q1.
Show the arithmetic
test: jobs.yoy.emp = -1.3 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
watchFIPS 23009, ME's typical asking rent is -1.5% against the previous month, a watch level here: typical asking rent at least 1 percent below the previous month (arithmetic on the Zillow ZORI month columns; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
Period 2026-08.
Show the arithmetic
test: rent.momPct = -1.485873541973225 <= -1
month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns
arithmetic on the Zillow ZORI month columns; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchFIPS 23009, ME's years of wages of 7.3 ranks 302nd of 3,063 US counties, a watch level here: years of wages in the top tenth of US counties (position among the counties that published both a ZHVI value and a QCEW average weekly wage; not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.