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Carthage, Maine.

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What it costs per month · Carthage $2,162/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,272 (+143%) since Jan 2020.

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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Maine $2,162 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Maine$2,162
  • United States$1,922

Living in Carthage, Franklin County, Maine

Carthage is a town of 509 people in Franklin County. Half its households earn more than $79,107 a year and half less, against $58,675 across Franklin County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Franklin County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Franklin County work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 509 in the 2020 census
Household income $79,107 the median, give or take $17,968 · Franklin County: $58,675
Unemployment 3.8% Franklin County, August 2026; 3.6% a year before
Homes 88% lived in by their owners; 12% rented

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Carthage is a small town in Franklin County, Maine, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in and incomes run well above the county's. Few residents hold a four-year degree, and poverty is low. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month, and a great deal of snow falls each year; summers are warm but mild, with July the warmest.

Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Across Franklin County, some of the largest workplaces are Franklin Memorial Hospital, RSU 09 Schools and the University of Maine at Farmington. A typical commute is a fairly short drive, and some residents work from home.

Things to do. Mount Blue State Park, a protected area, and Webb Lake are both a short drive away, with the Webb River close by as well. Farther afield, Rangeley Lake and the ski area at Black Mountain of Maine are a longer drive away.

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  • 13%of adults have a degree
  • 4%below the poverty line
  • 24 mintypical commute
  • 10%work from home

What people in Franklin County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care33%
  • Shops (retail)12%
  • Manufacturing10%
  • Professional and business services8%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment8%
  • Building trades7%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 10,512 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 28° and 7°; warmest in July, 79° and 58° 0° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 28° 7° F M A M J J 79° 58° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 28° and 7°; warmest in July, 79° and 58° 0° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 28° 7° F M A M J J 79° 58° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 58°. About 88 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rumford Sse weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Franklin County

  1. Franklin Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital606FTE
  2. RSU 09 SchoolsSchool district548FTE
  3. University of Maine at FarmingtonUniversity or college332
  4. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters275
  5. LifeMadeDinnerware, plastics, manufacturing164
  6. HannafordGrocery stores144
  7. RSU 58/msad 58 SchoolsSchool district134FTE
  8. Town of WiltonCity and town managers' offices102

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,032 people in all across the county; Carthage has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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

  1. Ice stormsRelatively high
  2. Winter weatherRelatively high
  3. LightningRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Franklin 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 Franklin County.

Carthage home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Market heat, inside the city limits

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

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Zip codes with a Carthage address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Carthage — 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.