Fryeburg, Maine.
Typical home $350,448 (+2.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,116 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,176 +3%
- $341,272$350,448 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,753 +32%
- $264,695$350,448 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.
- Fryeburg$1,839
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Fryeburg, ME rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine
Fryeburg, in Oxford County, had 1,444 people in the 2020 census. 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 people in Oxford 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fryeburg is a small community in western Maine, close to the New Hampshire line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, and summers are warm without being hot. Incomes in Oxford County are on the modest side, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Homes are worth more than many people expect for a rural area, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Oxford County, some of the largest workplaces are the area's school district, Sunday River Skiway and ND Paper. Most people travel to work rather than working from home, and the typical commute is a modest one. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Lovewell Pond is a lake in or beside town, and Moose Pond is another lake a short drive away. Also a short drive away is Echo Lake-Cathedral Ledge State Park, a protected area, and the Conway Scenic Railroad, a museum devoted to the railway. For a longer outing, White Mountain National Forest is a larger protected area a longer drive away.
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- 594households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Oxford County 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 30° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 56°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fryeburg East Slopes Airport weather station, 2 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; Fryeburg 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 high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Fryeburg’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.
Fryeburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fryeburg$350,448
- Maine$412,002
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Fryeburg listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fryeburg19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fryeburg6
Zip codes with a Fryeburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fryeburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.