Eliot
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Outdoors in Eliot
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About Eliot
Town in Maine, United StatesEliot is a town in York County, Maine, United States. Originally settled in 1623, it was formerly a part of Kittery, to its east. After Kittery, it is the next most southern town in the state of Maine, lying on the Piscataqua River across from Portsmouth and Newington, New Hampshire. The population was 6,717 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan area. The town contains the census-designated place of South Eliot. Eliot is home to Ambush Rock, Green Acre, and the Raitt Homestead Farm Museum.
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Housing in Eliot
The typical Eliot home is worth about $614,000, up 0.6% in a year, 48% above the Maine typical home.
Safety in Eliot
Safety Grade A+
Eliot reports less crime per resident than 98% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade.
Schools in Eliot
All Eliot schools →School Grade B
The public schools Eliot’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 60% of Maine’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within ME. Ratings are from neighbors.
Where Eliot is
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