Lewiston, Maine.
Typical home $295,775 (+0.6% in a year), asking rent $1,518 (+2.9%). Lewiston-Auburn, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$978 (+170%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,656 +1%
- $294,119$295,775 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $83,987 +40%
- $211,789$295,775 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.
- Lewiston$1,552
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Lewiston, ME rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Lewiston, ME rose 2.9% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Owning the typical home in Lewiston runs $637/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $757 in May 2024.
That is $2,156 a month against $1,518 rent: a $1,552 mortgage payment, plus $287 property tax and $317 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Lewiston
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,156
- Renting$1,518
- Mortgage only$1,552
Property tax · $287/mo 1.16% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Androscoggin County, ME
Insurance & upkeep · $317/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine
Lewiston is a city of 37,121 people in Androscoggin County. Half its households earn more than $55,393 a year and half less, against $67,873 across Androscoggin County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 51% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 49% are rented. Unemployment in Lewiston was 3.5% in August 2026, and Androscoggin County had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Lewiston is a city on the Androscoggin River, and it is one of the larger cities in Maine. Incomes run below the county's, and about as many homes are rented as are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm without being hot, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the biggest workplaces in Lewiston are Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston Public Schools and Bates College. Across Androscoggin County, the number of jobs slipped slightly last year, while unemployment in the city has stayed low and steady.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Bates College Museum of Art and Museum L-A offer local art and history, and Lyceum Hall is a theatre. The Little Androscoggin River runs through the area. A short drive away, Lost Valley Ski Area suits the snowy winters.
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- 16,099households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Androscoggin County had 48,382 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 62°. About 65 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lewiston weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lewiston
- Central Maine Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,567FTE
- Lewiston Public SchoolsSchool district1,048FTE
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage914
- St. Marys Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital849FTE
- Bates CollegeUniversity or college758
- SazeracEthyl alcohol, potable, manufacturing227
- HannafordGrocery stores198
- Lepage Bakeries Cedar StreetCommercial bakeries198
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 52 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,744 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lewiston’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Androscoggin County and the Lewiston-Auburn, ME metro.
Lewiston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lewiston$295,775
- Maine$412,002
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Lewiston listings, and the typical home goes pending in 13 days — 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.
- Lewiston31.31%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Lewiston13
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lewiston105
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lewiston38
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Lewiston$296,458
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Lewiston98.87%
Zip codes with a Lewiston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lewiston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.