Best PlacesLamoine, ME Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Lamoine, 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.
Lamoine ranks 3,064th 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 Lamoine
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.
Lamoine's strengths and weaknesses
Where Lamoine ranks high
- School gradeA+, better than 99% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than 99% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 98% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 90% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than 87% of towns
Where Lamoine ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 7% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 9% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than only 12% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than only 19% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Lamoine
A household needs to earn about $84,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Lamoine home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $88,542, 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 Lamoine's effective rate of 0.71%, 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 Lamoine
Lamoine 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 Lamoine.
Who works in Lamoine, and how
Work in Lamoine centers on retail trade and professional & technical. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 78%
- Work from home 22%
- Transit, walk, or bike 1%
Life in Lamoine
The coast is about 20 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Lamoine, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Lamoine, month by month
Lamoine 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 Lamoine
The nearest airport, Hancock County/Bar Harbor, is about 3 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is General Edward Lawrence Logan International, about 199 miles away.
The best schools in and around Lamoine
Schools across Lamoine average an A+, better than 99% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Lamoine Consolidated SchoolA+ · 90% proficient
- Trenton Elementary SchoolA+ · 88% proficient
Top high schools
- Mt Desert Island High SchoolA+ · 98% proficient
- Ellsworth High SchoolA+ · 88% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Lamoine school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Lamoine 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 Lamoine against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Lamoine
Is Lamoine a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Lamoine ranks 3,064th 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 Lamoine expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $324,800. The overall cost of living runs about 2% below the national average. Set against a $88,542 median income, cost of living beats 70% of towns.
Is Lamoine safe?
Yes, Lamoine is safer than 99% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $128 per resident a year.
Compare Lamoine with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Lamoine. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Lamoine 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.
Lamoine detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Lamoine: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Lamoine: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Lamoine: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Lamoine: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Lamoine 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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