Dover-Foxcroft, Maine.
Typical home $228,798 (-2.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$745 (+163%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,343 -2%
- $234,142$228,798 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,316 +37%
- $166,482$228,798 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.
- Dover-Foxcroft$1,201
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Dover-Foxcroft, ME fell 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis County, Maine
Dover-Foxcroft, in Piscataquis County, had 2,776 people in the 2020 census. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Piscataquis County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Piscataquis 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dover-Foxcroft is a small community in Piscataquis County, Maine, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Poverty is more common here than in many places, and typical home values are modest. Winters are long and cold, with a great deal of snow, and summers are warm without being hot. Compared with most of the country, fewer adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Mayo Regional Hospital and Central Maine Power Company are among the largest workplaces in town. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs there has slipped slightly. Some people work from home, though most travel to a job.
Things to do. Peaks-Kenny State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Sangerville Town Hall, a theatre, is also a short drive away. Schoodic Lake, a reservoir, is a longer drive away, and it is among several rivers and waters in the surrounding countryside.
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- 1,186households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What people in Piscataquis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Piscataquis County had 5,189 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 55°. About 77 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dover-foxcroft Wwtp weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dover-Foxcroft
- Mayo Regional HospitalCritical access hospital284FTE
- Central Maine Power CompanyElectric power distribution systems24
- Dover FoxcroftMail and parcel delivery22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 308 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dover-Foxcroft’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Piscataquis County.
Dover-Foxcroft home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dover-Foxcroft$228,798
- Maine$412,002
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Dover-Foxcroft listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Dover-Foxcroft27.98%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dover-Foxcroft45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dover-Foxcroft9
Zip codes with a Dover-Foxcroft address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dover-Foxcroft — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.