Easton, Maine.
Typical home $164,438 (+0.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$520 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $924 +1%
- $163,514$164,438 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,327 +26%
- $130,111$164,438 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.
- Easton$863
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Easton, ME rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Easton, Aroostook County, Maine
Easton is a town of 1,320 people in Aroostook County. Half its households earn more than $53,309 a year and half less, against $56,700 across Aroostook County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Aroostook County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Easton is a small town in Aroostook County, Maine, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are long and very cold, with a great deal of snow, and summers are mild and pleasant.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Across Aroostook County, the largest workplaces include The Aroostook Medical Center, Cary Medical Center and Walmart. Unemployment in the county has risen slightly over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier. Most people have a fairly short drive to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. Aroostook State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Big Rock, a ski area that suits the snowy winters. The Northern Maine Museum of Science is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Scopan Lake and the Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge are a longer drive away.
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- 543households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Aroostook County had 25,657 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 56°. About 98 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Presque Isle weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Aroostook County
- THE Aroostook Medical CenterGeneral hospital807FTE
- Cary Medical CenterGeneral hospital352FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters337
- RSU 79/msad 01 SchoolsSchool district332FTE
- Houlton Regional HospitalCritical access hospital279FTE
- Northern Maine Medical CenterGeneral hospital253FTE
- RSU 39 SchoolsSchool district221FTE
- RSU 29/msad 29 SchoolsSchool district216FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 63 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,609 people in all across the county; Easton has one 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Aroostook 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 Aroostook County.
Easton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Easton$164,438
- 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.
- Easton7
Zip codes with a Easton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Easton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.