Is Levant a good place to live?
Levant earns a D, 130th among Maine's 142 graded towns. One bright spot: natural-hazard risk is low. No town in Maine scores lower than Levant on the outdoors. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 88% of U.S. towns. On history, just 17 of Maine’s 285 towns do worse.
What makes Levant stand out
Where Levant beats most towns.
93% of working residents leave Levant for work
Where Levant’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Levant grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Maine), ordered by how far Levant is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Levant: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Levant, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Levant.
Levant has less tooth loss than most of Maine and has fewer 90° days than most of the country, though not than most of Maine; it also has little public open land.
Levant faces a low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 79% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Levant’s schools rank behind 63% of Maine districts
Its public schools are run by RSU 87/MSAD 23. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suzanne M Smith Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 222 | D |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within ME on state tests
About two in five of Levant’s working residents commute to Bangor
Levant has 255 jobs for its 1,451 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave Levant for work: only 7% work in town. At 31 minutes, Levant’s average trip to work is against 25 minutes in Maine’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Jobs based in Levant grew to 255 in 2023, 115 more than in 2013.
| Levant | Maine towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 31 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 7% | 12% | 8% |
| Median household income | $86,000 | $78,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Levant’s typical home value is about $324K
The typical Levant home is worth about $324,000, up 3.4% in a year, 21% below the Maine typical home. At $1,370 a month, Levant’s median rent is above both the Maine town median ($1,106 a month) and the median of U.S. towns ($1,185 a month).
| Levant | Maine towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,370 a month | $1,106 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 81% | 81% | 73% |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Snowy winters and pleasant summers in Levant
The Bangor Intl Ap weather station, 10 miles away, records that about 6 days a year reach 90°: fewer than most of the country, but more than 89% of Maine places with climate records.
Levant has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. Levant’s July high is 79°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Health in Levant trails 64% of U.S. towns
Its widest gap with Maine is tooth loss: 9.1% of those 65+ have lost all their teeth, against 14.8% statewide.
Levant beats the Maine average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 4. 29% of Levant adults have been diagnosed with depression. Only 6 of the 143 Maine towns we compare have a higher share of adults who feel lonely than Levant.
| Levant | Maine towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 27% | 23% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 18% | 17% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 36% | 32% | 33% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 33% | 35% |
| What stands out | Levant | ME |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 9.1% | 14.8% |
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 8.7% | 9.9% |
| More adults with obesity | 38.5% | 32.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Levant has set aside 0.5% of its land for conservation
Just 94 of its 19,116 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Levant itself; its outdoors grade is D−.
0.5 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Levant Wetlands | — | 17 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Levant
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Levant
About 2 of every 100 Levant residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Maine.
About Levant
Town in Maine, United States
Levant is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,970 at the 2020 census.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Established
- 1802
- Area
- 30 sq mi
- Elevation
- 295 ft
- ZIP code
- 04456
- Area code
- 207
Levant’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Levant.
| Town | ME rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Levant | #130 | D | C− | — | C+ | C+ |
| Glenburn | #77 | C+ | C | — | A− | B− |
| Kenduskeag | — | — | B | — | C | B− |
| Stetson | — | — | A− | — | C | D |
| Corinth | #90 | C | A | — | C | C− |
Kenduskeag and Stetson have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Levant, Glenburn, Kenduskeag, Stetson and Corinth report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Levant with a neighbor →
Questions about Levant
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Levant, ME a good place to live?
Levant grades D overall, better than 10% of U.S. towns and #130 of 142 in Maine. It grades C+ for health and C+ for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Levant, ME expensive?
Yes. That is 4.9 years of the area's median household income ($66,356 across the Bangor, ME metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.
What is Levant, ME known for?
2 notable people were born here, including William T. Haines and Daniel Hunt Gilman.