Best PlacesLiberty, ME Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Liberty, 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.
Liberty ranks 18,643rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low crime by a wide margin, and internet speeds rank lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Liberty
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.
Liberty's strengths and weaknesses
Where Liberty ranks high
- Crime safetyBetter than 98% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 98% of towns
- School gradeA−, better than 92% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 91% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than 87% of towns
Where Liberty ranks low
- Internet speedBetter than only 3% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 8% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 9% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Liberty
A household needs to earn about $62,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Liberty home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $69,686, 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 Liberty's effective rate of 1.04%, 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 Liberty
Liberty's age mix sits close to the national median, 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 Liberty.
Who works in Liberty, and how
Work in Liberty centers on education and manufacturing. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 84%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Liberty
The coast is about 24 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Liberty, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Liberty, month by month
Liberty sees roughly 76 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 82 degrees. January highs sit near 34, with lows near 13. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34° | 23° | 13° |
| April | 56° | 43° | 32° |
| July | 82° | 70° | 59° |
| October | 62° | 50° | 40° |
Flying in and out of Liberty
The nearest airport, Augusta State, is about 25 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is General Edward Lawrence Logan International, about 164 miles away.
The best schools in and around Liberty
Schools across Liberty average an A−, better than 92% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Appleton Village SchoolA+ · 90% proficient
- Ames Elementary SchoolA+ · 85% proficient
- Walker Memorial SchoolC · 31% proficient
Top middle schools
- Mt View Middle SchoolA+ · 76% proficient
Top high schools
- Camden Hills Regional H SA+ · 98% proficient
- Mt View High SchoolA+ · 88% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Liberty school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Liberty 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 Liberty against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Liberty
Is Liberty a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Liberty ranks 18,643rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low crime, cheap car insurance, and good schools, and lowest on internet speeds and a weak job market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Liberty expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $228,060. The overall cost of living runs about 5% below the national average. Set against a $69,686 median income, cost of living beats 33% of towns.
Is Liberty safe?
Yes, Liberty is safer than 98% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $130 per resident a year.
Compare Liberty with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Liberty. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Liberty 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.
Liberty detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Liberty: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Liberty: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Liberty: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Liberty: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Liberty 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.