Denmark, Maine.
Typical home $420,391 (+0.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,329 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,874 +1%
- $417,516$420,391 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $83,484 +25%
- $336,907$420,391 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.
- Denmark$2,207
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Denmark, ME rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Denmark, Oxford County, Maine
Denmark is a town of 1,197 people in Oxford County. Half its households earn more than $64,167 a year and half less, against $60,173 across Oxford County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Denmark is a small town in Oxford County, home to an older community than most of the country. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, far more than across the county as a whole, and household incomes sit a little above the county's. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days and the year is wet overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, the building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. A fair number of people work from home, and a minority of adults hold a four-year degree. Across Oxford County, some of the largest workplaces are Sunday River Skiway, ND Paper and Stephens Memorial Hospital.
Things to do. Moose Pond and Long Lake are both lakes a short drive away, and Pleasant Mountain Ski Area is a short drive away too for winter days on the slopes. For a longer outing, White Mountain National Forest is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 492households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 13%work from home
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 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 58°. About 84 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bridgton Northwest 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; Denmark 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.
Denmark home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Denmark$420,391
- 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.
- Denmark14
Zip codes with a Denmark address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Denmark — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.