Auburn, Maine.
Typical home $324,283 (+0.8% in a year), asking rent $1,706 (+3.0%). Lewiston-Auburn, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,047 (+160%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,510 +1%
- $321,773$324,283 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,756 +36%
- $238,527$324,283 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.
- Auburn$1,702
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Auburn, ME rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Auburn, ME rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Auburn runs $657/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $752 in Jan 2025.
That is $2,364 a month against $1,706 rent: a $1,702 mortgage payment, plus $314 property tax and $347 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Auburn
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,364
- Renting$1,706
- Mortgage only$1,702
Property tax · $314/mo 1.16% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Androscoggin County, ME
Insurance & upkeep · $347/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine
Auburn is a city of 24,061 people in Androscoggin County. Half its households earn more than $66,647 a year and half less, against $67,873 across Androscoggin County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Auburn was 3.4% in August 2026, and Androscoggin County had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Auburn is a small city on the Little Androscoggin River, with residents who are a little older than the typical American and household incomes slightly below the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters make up a real part of the city. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Auburn are Procter & Gamble, Auburn Public Schools and Walmart. Unemployment is low, though the county has lost a small share of its jobs over the past year.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Bates College Museum of Art and Museum L-A are museums close at hand, and the Little Androscoggin River runs through the city. A short drive away, Lost Valley Ski Area suits the snowy winters, and Range Ponds State Park is a protected area for getting outdoors. Sebago Lake, a reservoir, is a longer drive away.
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- 10,337households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Androscoggin County had 48,382 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 62°. About 65 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lewiston weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Auburn
- Procter & GambleSanitary napkins and tampons made from purchased paper or textile fiber557
- Auburn Public SchoolsSchool district512FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters486
- Central Maine Community CollegeTwo-year college279
- Pioneer Plastics - AuburnLaminated plastics plate, rod, and sheet, manufacturing277
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services264
- M.S. Ambrogio North AmericaMetal stampings, unfinished, manufacturing236
- Senior LifestyleSkilled nursing facilities213
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,486 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Auburn’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Androscoggin County and the Lewiston-Auburn, ME metro.
Auburn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Auburn$324,283
- Maine$412,002
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Auburn listings, and the typical home goes pending in 17 days — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Auburn38.85%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Auburn17
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Auburn88
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Auburn32
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Auburn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Auburn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.