A typical Garland home is worth roughly $205,000
Builders were permitted 7 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Garland?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 4 years of income
Less than across Maine (5.6 years). Try your own numbers below.
That’s $3K short of a typical Garland home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,530 a month here, $320 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Garland’s typical property tax (0.75% 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 $1,530
Renters already here pay a median of $794, 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 (Penobscot County, ME (part) HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
7 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 7 new homes in Garland in 2025, all single-family houses, worth about $2.2 million to build.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 4 | 4 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| 2025 | 7 | 7 | 0 | $2.2 million |
| 2024 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $1.3 million |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
1 of Garland’s houses are on the National Register
Half of Garland’s homes were built before 1988.
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.
Garland vs. its neighbors
Garland is the least expensive of 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garland | $205K* | — | $1,530 | 7 | $51,094 |
| Dexter | $210K | +3.5% | $1,420 | 8 | $51,845 |
| Dover-Foxcroft | $237K | −1.4% | $1,480 | 20 | $63,344 |
| Charleston | $229K | +3% | $1,770 | 0 | $75,250 |
| Exeter | $224K | +3.3% | $1,980 | 3 | $84,408 |
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.
Neighbors talk housing
What Garland 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.