Oak HillME
The town was settled in 1840 and has 5,631 residents today.
Is Oak Hill a good place to live?
29% of residents are 65 or older in Oak Hill, against 22% in Maine’s towns and 18% across U.S. towns. Among 134 Maine towns, just 8 have a higher typical rent than Oak Hill. 13% of the land in Oak Hill is conserved, where Maine’s towns sit at 4.7% and U.S. towns at 4.3%. Elaine Stimson Warren Woods, at 215 acres with 1.5 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve. We don’t grade Oak Hill yet; the figures below are still real.
What makes Oak Hill stand out
Where Oak Hill beats most towns.
Every workday, about 4,746 people come to Oak Hill for work
Where Oak Hill’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Portland Head Light and 29 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Oak Hill. Close and well known come first.
7 mi LighthousePortland Head Light
8 mi LandmarkFort Gorges30 mi Ancient sitePopham Colony
6 mi MuseumPortland Museum of Art
7 mi MuseumMaine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum
7 mi Theme parkFuntown Splashtown USAPhoto credits
Portland Head Light: Aniarku, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort Gorges: Dirk Ingo Franke, CC BY 3.0 · Portland Museum of Art: John Phelan, 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 · Funtown Splashtown USA: Paulec252, CC BY-SA 4.0
Moving to Oak Hill: who provides what
Oak Hill is unincorporated, so Cumberland County and regional agencies provide most services.
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 Oak Hill.
With 1.8 jobs for every working resident, Oak Hill draws in 4,746 commuters
Among working residents in Oak Hill, 5.4% work locally. The town had 4,891 jobs in 2023, up 2,019 from 2013. Also worth knowing: the mean commuting time locally is 20 minutes. The top destinations are Portland (28%), Scarborough (18%) and South Portland (12%).
| Oak Hill | Maine towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 20 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 5% | 9% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $98,000 | $78,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 17% | 14% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Oak Hill faces a very low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected damage from storms and floods is lower here than in 81% of U.S. communities. Of the losses FEMA expects in Oak Hill, 35% come from inland flooding and 25% from hurricanes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Oak Hill has snowy winters and pleasant summers
The typical July afternoon high for Oak Hill comes to 81°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Oak Hill keeps 12.8% of its land conserved
Trails run 5.2 miles in 9 parks and preserves. Oak Hill’s density of trails is 0.9 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Elaine Stimson Warren Woods | 1.5 mi | 215 |
| 2. Scarborough Marsh Wildlife Management Area | — | 136 |
| 3. Hunnewell Hill | — | 56 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
A smaller share of adults have obesity in Oak Hill than in most of Maine or the rest of the country
Only 9 of the 144 Maine towns we compare have a lower share of adults who say their health is fair or poor than Oak Hill. For adults in the town, the share who have diabetes is 9.6%. Of 32 CDC measures, Oak Hill beats the Maine average on 19 and trails it on 1. 9.7% of adults in Oak Hill smoke cigarettes; 15% report frequent mental distress.
| Oak Hill | Maine towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 33% | 35% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 9.7% | 15% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 18% | 17% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 19% | 19% |
| What stands out | Oak Hill | ME |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 7.3% | 14.8% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7.2% | 10.7% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11.7% | 9.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The median home in Oak Hill sells for about $620K
A home in Oak Hill typically sold within 37 days of listing. In Oak Hill, 76% of households own their home. Sellers in Oak Hill got 99.1% of the asking price, typically.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Oak Hill
Colleges nearby
4 within 15 miles of the center of Oak Hill
About 5 of every 100 Oak Hill residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Maine.
About Oak Hill
Census-designated place in Maine, United States
Oak Hill is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Scarborough in Cumberland, Maine, United States. Prior to the 2020 census, the CDP was known as Scarborough. As of the 2020 census, Oak Hill had a population of 5,846. It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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- Area
- 5.0 sq mi
- Elevation
- 20 ft
Questions about Oak Hill
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Is Oak Hill, ME a good place to live?
We don’t grade Oak Hill yet; the figures below are still real.