Brownville, Maine.
Typical home $150,221 (-4.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$475 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,392 -5%
- $157,613$150,221 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,649 +23%
- $122,572$150,221 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.
- Brownville$788
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Brownville, ME fell 4.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brownville, Piscataquis County, Maine
Brownville is a town of 1,139 people in Piscataquis County. Half its households earn more than $64,063 a year and half less, against $61,345 across Piscataquis County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Piscataquis County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brownville is a small town in Piscataquis County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the people who live there tend to be older than in much of the country. Household incomes run a little above the county's, though more residents live below the poverty line than many would expect. Winters are long and cold, with a great deal of snow, and summers are mild and warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing close behind, and many also work in banks, insurance and property or in transport and warehouses. Across Piscataquis County, the largest workplaces include Mayo Regional Hospital, JSI Store Fixtures Milo and Hardwood Products Company. Commutes are long, a four-year degree is less common than elsewhere, and relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. The East Branch Pleasant River, a river, runs in or beside town, and Schoodic Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Katahdin Iron Works, an archaeological site, is also a short drive from town. Peaks-Kenny State Park, a protected area with lakes nearby, is a longer drive away.
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- 471households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Piscataquis County had 5,189 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 56°. About 92 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Barnard weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Piscataquis County
- Mayo Regional HospitalCritical access hospital284FTE
- JSI Store Fixtures MiloFixtures, store display, manufacturing155
- Hardwood Products CompanyApplicators, wood, manufacturing144
- RSU 68/msad 68 SchoolsSchool district140FTE
- Hibbard Skilled Nursing CenterSkilled nursing facilities124
- Creative OptionsGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability122
- RSU 80/msad 04 SchoolsSchool district119FTE
- Charles a Dean Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital107FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,281 people in all across the county; Brownville 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Piscataquis County, 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 Piscataquis County.
Brownville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brownville$150,221
- 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.
- Brownville13
Zip codes with a Brownville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brownville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.