Best PlacesPort Clyde, ME Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Port Clyde, 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.
Port Clyde ranks 4,851st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on good schools by a wide margin, and cell coverage ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Port Clyde
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.
Port Clyde's strengths and weaknesses
Where Port Clyde ranks high
- School gradeA+, better than 99% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 98% of towns
- QuietBetter than 97% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 95% of towns
Where Port Clyde ranks low
- Cell coverageBetter than only 4% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 5% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 9% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 22% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Port Clyde
A household needs to earn about $90,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Port Clyde home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $96,724, 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 Port Clyde's effective rate of 0.75%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Port Clyde
Port Clyde 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 Port Clyde.
Who works in Port Clyde, and how
Work in Port Clyde centers on professional & technical and manufacturing. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 70%
- Work from home 28%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Port Clyde
The coast is about 4 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Port Clyde, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Port Clyde, month by month
Port Clyde 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 Port Clyde
The nearest airport, Knox County Regional, is about 12 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is General Edward Lawrence Logan International, about 140 miles away.
The best schools in and around Port Clyde
Schools across Port Clyde average an A+, better than 99% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Friendship Village SchoolA+ · 95% proficient
- St George SchoolA+ · 85% proficient
Top middle schools
- Medomak Middle SchoolA+ · 84% proficient
Top high schools
- Medomak Valley High SchoolA+ · 94% proficient
- Boothbay Region High SchoolA+ · 88% proficient
- Oceanside High SchoolA+ · 83% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Port Clyde school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Port Clyde 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 Port Clyde against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Port Clyde
Is Port Clyde a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Port Clyde ranks 4,851st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on good schools, an educated workforce, and cheap car insurance, and lowest on cell coverage and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Port Clyde expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $347,800. The overall cost of living runs about 22% above the national average. Set against a $96,724 median income, cost of living beats 62% of towns.
Is Port Clyde safe?
Yes, Port Clyde is safer than 70% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $236 per resident a year.
Compare Port Clyde with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Port Clyde. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Port Clyde 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.
Port Clyde detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Port Clyde: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Port Clyde: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Port Clyde: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Port Clyde: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Port Clyde 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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