A typical Alna home is worth roughly $367,000
Builders were permitted 6 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Alna?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
2 of Alna’s houses are on the National Register
Half of Alna’s homes were built before 1978.
Maine: 74% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.
A typical home costs 3.9 years of income
Less than across Maine (5.6 years). Try your own numbers below.
That’s $10K short of a typical Alna home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,430 a month here, $800 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Alna’s typical property tax (1.00% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,430
Renters already here pay a median of $1,088, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Lincoln County, ME): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
6 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 6 new homes in Alna in 2025, all single-family houses, worth about $1.9 million to build. Over the past 10 years, Alna has permitted 24 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Alna gained 1 resident while 22 new homes were permitted: about 0 new residents per new home. Building outpaced population growth, which usually means smaller households or homes used part of the year. Across Maine: 0.9 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 4 | 4 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| 2025 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $1.9 million |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $330,000 |
| 2023 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $450,000 |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $300,000 |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $300,000 |
| 2020 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $600,000 |
| 2019 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $600,000 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $150,000 |
| 2016 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $550,000 |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $550,000 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $940,000 |
| 2013 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $940,000 |
| 2012 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $555,000 |
| 2011 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $430,000 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $160,000 |
| 2009 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $487,000 |
| 2008 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $369,000 |
| 2007 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $358,000 |
| 2006 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $511,000 |
| 2005 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $471,000 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $295,000 |
| 2003 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $682,000 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
Alna vs. its neighbors
Alna is the 3rd least expensive of 6 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.
Compare more
| Town | Typical value | 1-yr change | 2-bed rent | New homes 2025 | Median income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alna | $367K* | — | $1,430 | 6 | $93,125 |
| Newcastle | $469K | −2.7% | $1,490 | 12 | $89,868 |
| Wiscasset | $387K | +1% | $1,780 | 18 | $71,118 |
| Whitefield | $337K | +6.5% | $1,250 | — | $73,875 |
| Jefferson | $390K | +2.8% | $1,420 | 22 | $85,078 |
| Dresden | $356K | +1.5% | $1,610 | 3 | $74,844 |
Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.
On the market in Alna
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
Neighbors talk housing
What Alna buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.