Buckfield, Maine.
Typical home $292,851 (+7.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,007 (+190%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,516 +7%
- $273,335$292,851 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,106 +34%
- $217,745$292,851 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.
- Buckfield$1,537
- 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 Buckfield, ME rose 7.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine
Buckfield is a town of 1,983 people in Oxford County. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Oxford County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buckfield is a small Maine town where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, far more than across most of the country. Winters are long and cold, with a great deal of snow, and summers are pleasantly warm. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year, and January is the coldest month while July is the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services also employing many. Across Oxford County, the largest workplaces include Sunday River Skiway, ND Paper and Stephens Memorial Hospital. Fewer jobs were available across the county than the year before, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. The West Branch and East Branch of the Nezinscot River run in or beside town, and the Nezinscot River itself is a short drive away. Lost Valley Ski Area is also a short drive away for winter days on the snow. Farther out, Long Lake is a longer drive away if you want a day by bigger water.
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- 885households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Oxford County had 16,970 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 78 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Turner weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Oxford County
- RSU 17/msad 17 SchoolsSchool district697FTE
- Sunday River SkiwayFour season ski resorts without accommodations546
- ND PaperPulp and paper combined manufacturing525
- RSU 10 SchoolsSchool district416FTE
- Churchill DownsCasino hotels369
- Stephens Memorial Hospital - CAHCritical access hospital355FTE
- Irving Forest ProductsDimension lumber, softwood, made from logs or bolts270
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters267
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,313 people in all across the county; Buckfield has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Oxford 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 Oxford County.
Buckfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buckfield$292,851
- 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.
- Buckfield9
Zip codes with a Buckfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buckfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.