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Plenty to like here, at a price. With an A− overall, North Yarmouth is better than 84% of U.S. towns and ranks 15th of 142 in Maine. Schools are its strong suit (A): its schools outperform 93% of the state's. Incomes are another plus (A): the median household earns $129K. The drawback is cost of living (C−): the typical home is worth about $694K, 7.5 years of the Portland metro’s $92K median household income. 13% of the land here is conserved, against 4.7% in Maine’s towns and 4.3% across U.S. towns. The biggest park or preserve is Water Supply Land, at 361 acres. Only 10 of Maine’s 285 towns score higher on health.
Figures: schools, state test and graduation results · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · home values, Zillow · health, CDC PLACES · USGS PAD-US · OpenStreetMap.
Where North Yarmouth beats most towns.
| Widest gap | North Yarmouth | ME |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 9.4% | 14.8% |
Census counts: 1,978 in 1790, a low of 569 in 1930, 4,072 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1794 and 4 maps from 1892 on.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Maine), ordered by how far North Yarmouth is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around North Yarmouth. Close and well known come first.
16 mi LighthousePortland Head Light
13 mi LandmarkFort Gorges24 mi Ancient sitePopham Colony
13 mi MuseumMaine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum
13 mi MuseumPortland Museum of Art23 mi LandmarkSpirit Pond runestonesPortland Head Light: Aniarku, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort Gorges: Dirk Ingo Franke, CC BY 3.0 · Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum: No machine-readable author provided. Gwernol assumed (based on copyright claims), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Portland Museum of Art: John Phelan, CC BY 3.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in North Yarmouth, 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.
Ordered by what stands out in North Yarmouth.
North Yarmouth gets more snow than nearly all U.S. towns and has less tooth loss than most of Maine, but it has homes that cost more against local pay than most of Maine.
Across 30 parks and preserves: 25 miles of trail. North Yarmouth’s trail density stands at 1.2 miles per square mile. Parks and preserves locally: 30, covering 1,530 acres.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Old Town House Park | 2.9 mi | 56 |
| 2. Chandler Brook Preserve | 2.5 mi | 63 |
| 3. Skyline Farm | 2.4 mi | 58 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
At 7.5 years of the Portland metro’s $92K median household income, the typical home (about $695K) costs more against local pay than in 92% of Maine towns; that ratio is one input to its C− for cost of living. The median property tax bill is $5,355, against $3,036 across Maine, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Among 133 Maine towns, just 10 have a higher going rate for rent than North Yarmouth. In North Yarmouth, 87% of households are owner-occupiers. Values rose 3.5% in the 12 months to September 2026.
| North Yarmouth | Maine towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,708 a month | $1,106 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 87% | 81% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Its widest gap with Maine is tooth loss: 9.4% of those 65+ have lost all their teeth, against 14.8% statewide. Against the 4,634 U.S. towns with household incomes like North Yarmouth’s, it is healthier than 67%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
Only 7 of the 143 Maine towns we compare have a lower share of adults who get no exercise outside work than North Yarmouth. For adults here, the share who have diabetes is 8.9%.
| North Yarmouth | Maine towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 33% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 23% | 25% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 33% | 36% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 8.9% | 11% | 12% |
| What stands out | North Yarmouth | ME |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 9.4% | 14.8% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7.2% | 10.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
North Yarmouth has 433 jobs for its 1,957 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most people who work leave North Yarmouth to do it: just 7% work in town. Among residents here, 4.8% live below the poverty line. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs locally rose by 65, to 433. The mean commuting time for North Yarmouth comes to 27 minutes.
| North Yarmouth | Maine towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $129,000 | $78,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 18% | 14% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 4.8% | 9% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 27 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
FEMA expects less storm and flood damage in North Yarmouth than in 73% of U.S. communities. 50% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by hurricanes at 23%. Federal disaster aid has reached households in North Yarmouth after 2 declared disasters, most recently in 2024.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The Gray weather station records that 84 inches of snow fall in a normal winter, more than in 95% of U.S. towns. July afternoons average 80°: cooler than most of the country, but hotter than 89% of Maine places with climate records; January nights average 12.2°.
The town’s July high is 80°F.
| North Yarmouth | Maine towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 80°F | 79°F | 85°F |
| January low | 12°F | 10°F | 22°F |
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
6 within 15 miles of the center of North Yarmouth
About 5 of every 100 North Yarmouth residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Maine.
3,565 counted in 2010 and 4,072 in 2020; an estimated 4,424 in 2025.
Growth hasn’t slowed: 8.7% since 2020, after 14.2% in the decade before.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
8 notable people were born in North Yarmouth.
Town in Maine, United States
North Yarmouth is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. North Yarmouth is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England City and Town Area. The population was 4,072 at the 2020 United States census. It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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5 towns share a border with North Yarmouth.
| Town | ME rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Yarmouth | #15 | A− | C− | — | A | A |
| Cumberland | #1 | A+ | D | A+ | A | A+ |
| Yarmouth | #8 | A | D− | A | A+ | A |
| Pownal | — | — | C+ | — | A | A− |
| Cumberland Center | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gray | #60 | B | C | — | B− | A |
Pownal has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. North Yarmouth, Pownal and Gray report no FBI crime data of their own. Cumberland Center isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare North Yarmouth with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. North Yarmouth grades A− overall, better than 84% of U.S. towns and #15 of 142 in Maine. It grades A for health and A for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a C−.
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.
North Yarmouth was chartered in 1680. 8 notable people were born here, including Elizabeth Oakes Smith and Charles Drummond Lawrence.
