Best PlacesFletchers Landing, ME Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Fletchers Landing, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Fletchers Landing ranks 15,399th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on good schools by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Fletchers Landing
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Fletchers Landing's strengths and weaknesses
Where Fletchers Landing ranks high
- School gradeA+, better than 99% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than 98% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 98% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than 94% of towns
- QuietBetter than 90% of towns
Where Fletchers Landing ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 9% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 11% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than only 12% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Fletchers Landing
A household needs to earn about $53,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Fletchers Landing home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $62,014, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Fletchers Landing's effective rate of 0.81%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 6 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Fletchers Landing
Fletchers Landing runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Fletchers Landing.
Who works in Fletchers Landing, and how
Work in Fletchers Landing centers on health care & social and construction. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 90%
- Work from home 9%
- Transit, walk, or bike 1%
Life in Fletchers Landing
The coast is about 27 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Fletchers Landing, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Fletchers Landing, month by month
Fletchers Landing sees roughly 76 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 79 degrees. January highs sit near 35, with lows near 16. The comfortable stretch runs June through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 35° | 25° | 16° |
| April | 53° | 42° | 32° |
| July | 79° | 67° | 58° |
| October | 61° | 51° | 41° |
Flying in and out of Fletchers Landing
The nearest airport, Hancock County/Bar Harbor, is about 10 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is General Edward Lawrence Logan International, about 203 miles away.
The best schools in and around Fletchers Landing
Schools across Fletchers Landing average an A+, better than 99% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Cave Hill SchA+ · 95% proficient
- Beech Hill SchoolA+ · 88% proficient
- Ellsworth Elementary-middle SchoolA+ · 83% proficient
Top high schools
- Sumner Memorial High SchoolA+ · 95% proficient
- Ellsworth High SchoolA+ · 88% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Fletchers Landing school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Fletchers Landing measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Fletchers Landing against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Fletchers Landing
Is Fletchers Landing a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Fletchers Landing ranks 15,399th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on good schools, low crime, and cheap car insurance, and lowest on an overheated housing market and state infrastructure. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Fletchers Landing expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $201,413. The overall cost of living runs about 4% below the national average. Set against a $62,014 median income, cost of living beats 21% of towns.
Is Fletchers Landing safe?
Yes, Fletchers Landing is safer than 98% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $129 per resident a year.
Compare Fletchers Landing with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Fletchers Landing. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Fletchers Landing represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Fletchers Landing detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Fletchers Landing: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Fletchers Landing: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Fletchers Landing: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Fletchers Landing: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Fletchers Landing detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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