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Cooper, Maine.

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What it costs per month · Cooper $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 Cooper, Washington County, Maine

Cooper is a town of 168 people in Washington County. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington County work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 168 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Cooper for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 4.4% Washington County, August 2026; 4.1% a year before
Homes 95% lived in by their owners; 5% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cooper is a very small town in Washington County, Maine, with far fewer people than most places in the country. Nearly every home is lived in by its owner, and incomes here are not far from the county's, which is itself a rural, modest-income part of the state. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild, with July the warmest; precipitation falls steadily through the year as both rain and melted snow.

Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, in farming, forestry and mining, and in manufacturing. The typical commute is long, which reflects how spread out jobs are across this part of Maine. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are Woodland Pulp, Down East Community Hospital and Calais Public Schools, and the county has lost a few jobs over the past year.

Things to do. Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and Meddybemps Lake are both a short drive away, and the Maine River is close by too. A longer drive leads to Cobscook Bay State Park and Quoddy Head State Park, both protected areas, and to Reversing Falls Park, which is a park.

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  • 44 mintypical commute

What people in Washington County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care30%
  • Shops (retail)12%
  • Farming, forestry and mining10%
  • Manufacturing8%
  • Government7%
  • Building trades7%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 10,135 jobs in 2025, 0.7% 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 13°; warmest in July, 80° and 62° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 28° 13° F M A M J J 80° 62° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 28° and 13°; warmest in July, 80° and 62° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 28° 13° F M A M J J 80° 62° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 62°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Woodland weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Washington County

  1. Woodland PulpManufacturing304
  2. Down East Community HospitalCritical access hospital246FTE
  3. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters208
  4. Calais Public SchoolsSchool district173FTE
  5. RSU 37/msad 37 SchoolsSchool district152FTE
  6. Calais Community HospitalCritical access hospital125FTE
  7. HannafordGrocery stores124
  8. Jasper Wyman & SonFruits, frozen, manufacturing123

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,026 people in all across the county; Cooper 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

  1. Winter weatherRelatively high
  2. Ice stormsRelatively high
  3. HurricanesRelatively moderate
  4. Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
  5. LightningRelatively moderate

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

Cooper 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.

Zip codes with a Cooper address

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