Dixfield, Maine.
Typical home $184,092 (-1.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$593 (+159%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,382 -2%
- $187,474$184,092 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,086 +29%
- $143,006$184,092 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.
- Dixfield$966
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Dixfield, ME fell 1.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dixfield, Oxford County, Maine
Dixfield, in Oxford County, had 1,323 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $70,608 a year and half less, against $60,173 across Oxford County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dixfield is a small community where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the share of owners is high. Household incomes are above the county's, though a noticeable portion of residents still live below the poverty line. Winters are long, cold and very snowy, and summers are mild and pleasant, so life here follows the seasons.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing a good number of people. Across Oxford County, some of the largest workplaces are Sunday River Skiway, ND Paper and Stephens Memorial Hospital. The typical commute is moderate, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Webb River runs in or beside town, a handy spot for time by the water. Black Mountain of Maine, a ski area, is a short drive away, which suits the snowy winters. The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum is a longer drive away and makes for a good day trip.
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- 678households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 5%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 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, 4 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; Dixfield has two 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 weatherVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dixfield’s census tracts, 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.
Dixfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dixfield$184,092
- 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.
- Dixfield9
Zip codes with a Dixfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dixfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.