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MaineHousing Affordability Indexes

MaineHousing’s affordability dashboards provide a statewide, county, and local breakdown of home buying and rental affordability. The affordability calculations are based on comparisons of area median house prices and median two-bedroom rent costs to area median household incomes, accounting for other housing costs (property taxes, utilities, etc.).

• Interactive Homeownership Indexes
  The Homeownership Affordability Index is undergoing reconstruction and is currently unavailable. 
  
• Interactive Rental Indexes 
  The Rental Affordability Index is undergoing reconstruction and is currently unavailable. 
  

Housing Characteristics

Housing Characteristics is an interactive dashboard that provides visitors with Census data on the financial and structural characteristics of residential housing in Maine.

This data, used in conjunction with the Housing and Affordability Index, can provide the reader with some basic understanding of housing in the selected community, its affordability, and needs. 

• State of Maine Housing Data Portal Dashboard