Anson, Maine.
Typical home $186,350 (+4.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$610 (+166%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,249 +4%
- $179,101$186,350 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,285 +35%
- $138,065$186,350 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Anson$978
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Anson, ME rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Anson, Somerset County, Maine
Anson, in Somerset County, had 680 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Somerset County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Somerset County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Anson is a very small community on the Maine side of the Kennebec Valley, and homes here cost less than in much of the country. Winters are long and cold, with a great deal of snow, and summers are mild and warm. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and almost no one works from home.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Somerset County, the largest workplaces include Sappi North America, a paper mill operator, along with Redington-Fairview General Hospital and one of the local school districts. Household incomes in the county are modest, and the county has lost a few jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Norridgewock, an archaeological site, lies in or beside town, and the Sandy River runs through the same area. A short drive away are the Carrabassett River and Lakewood Theater, a theatre. For skiing, Sugarloaf is a ski area a longer drive away.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 0%work from home
What people in Somerset County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Somerset County had 15,847 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 57°. About 74 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Madison weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Somerset County
- Sappi North AmericaPaper products made in paper mills796
- Redington-fairview General HospitalCritical access hospital691FTE
- RSU 54/msad 54 SchoolsSchool district510FTE
- RSU 49/msad 49 SchoolsSchool district376FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters301
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters255
- Sebasticook Valley HospitalCritical access hospital210FTE
- Cianbro1208
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,763 people in all across the county; Anson has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Anson’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Somerset County.
Anson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Anson$186,350
- Maine$412,002
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Anson15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Anson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Anson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.