Buxton, Maine.
Typical home $469,185 (+2.2% in a year). Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,391 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,002 +2%
- $459,183$469,185 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,956 +20%
- $391,229$469,185 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.
- Buxton$2,463
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Buxton, ME rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buxton, York County, Maine
Buxton is a town of 8,376 people in York County. Half its households earn more than $100,144 a year and half less, against $88,333 across York County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in York County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in York 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buxton is a small town in York County where most homes are lived in by the people who own them, a good deal more than is typical across the country. Residents tend to be older than in most places, household incomes run above the county's, and very few people live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and a good amount of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. In Buxton itself, the largest workplaces include the local school district, Gorham Sand & Gravel and Dearborn Brothers Construction. Commutes are on the long side, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Funtown Splashtown USA is an amusement park, and the Little Ossipee River and Scarborough Marsh, a protected area, offer time near the water and wildlife. A longer drive brings you to Sebago Lake, a large reservoir, and to Higgins Beach for a day by the sea.
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- 3,431households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in York County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. York County had 79,603 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 58°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Buxton Nnw weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Buxton
- RSU 06/msad 06 SchoolsSchool district812FTE
- Gorham Sand & GravelExcavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors99
- Dearborn Brothers ConstructionExcavation contractors50
- TEMMachine shops27
- Peters ConstructionExcavation contractors20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 196 people in all. School districts come 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across York County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 York County and the Portland-South Portland, ME metro.
Buxton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buxton$469,185
- 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 Buxton listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Buxton34.44%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Buxton21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Buxton10
Zip codes with a Buxton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buxton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.