Best PlacesIsle Au Haut, ME Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Isle Au Haut, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Isle Au Haut ranks 19,198th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on short commutes by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Isle Au Haut
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.
Isle Au Haut's strengths and weaknesses
Where Isle Au Haut ranks high
- Short commute5.4 minutes each way, better than 99% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 98% of towns
- QuietBetter than 97% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 97% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 94% of towns
Where Isle Au Haut ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 3% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 9% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Household income$49,925 median, better than only 12% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 14% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Isle Au Haut
A household needs to earn about $130,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Isle Au Haut home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $49,925, so buying stretches a typical household.
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 Isle Au Haut's effective rate of 0.76%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Isle Au Haut
Isle Au Haut 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 Isle Au Haut.
Who works in Isle Au Haut, and how
Work in Isle Au Haut centers on agriculture & forestry and education. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 33%
- Work from home 29%
- Transit, walk, or bike 38%
Life in Isle Au Haut
The coast is about 1 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Isle Au Haut, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Isle Au Haut, month by month
Isle Au Haut sees roughly 80 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 78 degrees. January highs sit near 36, with lows near 16. The comfortable stretch runs June through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 36° | 26° | 16° |
| April | 53° | 43° | 33° |
| July | 78° | 67° | 58° |
| October | 61° | 51° | 41° |
Flying in and out of Isle Au Haut
The nearest airport, Knox County Regional, is about 24 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is General Edward Lawrence Logan International, about 168 miles away.
The best schools in and around Isle Au Haut
Schools across Isle Au Haut average an A, better than 89% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Swans Island Elementary SchoolA+ · 90% proficient
- Deer Isle-stonington Elementary SchA · 68% proficient
Top high schools
- Mt Desert Island High SchoolA+ · 98% proficient
- Oceanside High SchoolA+ · 83% proficient
- Deer Isle-stonington High SchA+ · 80% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Isle Au Haut school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Isle Au Haut 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 Isle Au Haut against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Isle Au Haut
Is Isle Au Haut a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Isle Au Haut ranks 19,198th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on short commutes, cheap car insurance, and quiet, 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 Isle Au Haut expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $498,539. The overall cost of living runs about 1% below the national average. Set against a $49,925 median income, cost of living beats 34% of towns.
Is Isle Au Haut safe?
Isle Au Haut is safer than 14% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $486 per resident a year.
Compare Isle Au Haut with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Isle Au Haut. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Isle Au Haut 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.
Isle Au Haut detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Isle Au Haut: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Isle Au Haut: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Isle Au Haut: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Isle Au Haut: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Isle Au Haut 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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