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The median home value in Bar Harbor, ME is $681,496 as of 2026-07-31, up 0.23% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$681,496
Year-over-Year
+0.23%
Population
7,538
Bar Harbor ranks #6 of 49 Maine cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 88.4% above the state's city median of $361,654. It sits in Hancock County, where the county-wide median is $432,155.
Median household income in Bar Harbor is $67,701, so the typical home value is about 10.1× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Bar Harbor police recorded a violent crime rate of 26 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — lower than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 478 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Bar Harbor, that value is $681,496. That's up 0.23% from a year earlier. It is about 88.4% above the typical Maine city tracked here.
Homes in Bar Harbor are more expensive than Hancock County as a whole, where the median is $432,155 — a difference of about 57.7%.
Median household income here is $67,701, so the typical home value is about 10.1× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Bar Harbor police reported 26 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 7,538. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.