Best PlacesTenants Harbor, ME Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Tenants Harbor, 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.
Tenants Harbor ranks 6,524th 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 Tenants Harbor
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.
Tenants Harbor's strengths and weaknesses
Where Tenants Harbor ranks high
- School gradeA+, better than 99% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 98% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 95% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 94% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 92% of towns
Where Tenants Harbor ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 9% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 22% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,023 a month, better than only 23% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Tenants Harbor
A household needs to earn about $90,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Tenants Harbor home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $88,271; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.
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 Tenants Harbor's effective rate of 0.75%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Tenants Harbor
Tenants Harbor 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 Tenants Harbor.
Who works in Tenants Harbor, and how
Work in Tenants Harbor 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 77%
- Work from home 19%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Tenants Harbor
The coast is about 6 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Tenants Harbor, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Tenants Harbor, month by month
Tenants Harbor 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 Tenants Harbor
The nearest airport, Knox County Regional, is about 9 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is General Edward Lawrence Logan International, about 142 miles away.
The best schools in and around Tenants Harbor
Schools across Tenants Harbor average an A+, better than 99% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- St George SchoolA+ · 85% 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 Tenants Harbor school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Tenants Harbor 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 Tenants Harbor against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Tenants Harbor
Is Tenants Harbor a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Tenants Harbor ranks 6,524th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on good schools, cheap car insurance, and health care access, 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 Tenants Harbor expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $348,300. The overall cost of living runs about 20% above the national average. Set against a $88,271 median income, cost of living beats 47% of towns.
Is Tenants Harbor safe?
Yes, Tenants Harbor is safer than 74% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $227 per resident a year.
Compare Tenants Harbor with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Tenants Harbor. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Tenants Harbor 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.
Tenants Harbor detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Tenants Harbor: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Tenants Harbor: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Tenants Harbor: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Tenants Harbor: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Tenants Harbor 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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