Limestone, Maine.
Typical home $131,906 (+4.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$444 (+179%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,109 +4%
- $126,797$131,906 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,957 +50%
- $87,949$131,906 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.
- Limestone$692
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Limestone, ME rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Limestone, Aroostook County, Maine
Limestone, in Aroostook County, had 874 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $52,607 a year and half less, against $56,700 across Aroostook County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 people in Aroostook 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Limestone is a small community in Aroostook County, in the far north of Maine, where neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a good number of residents live below the poverty line. Homes are modestly priced, and winters are long and cold, with snow a regular part of life from the heart of the cold season well into spring.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and transport and warehouse work also employing many. Across Aroostook County, the largest workplaces include The Aroostook Medical Center, Cary Medical Center and Walmart. The county has lost a few jobs over the past year, and unemployment has edged up slightly from a year earlier.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge offers protected land for walking and watching wildlife, and the Little Madawaska River is close by for time near the water. The Loring Military Heritage Center, a museum, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Big Rock is a ski area that suits the snowy winters.
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- 463households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 12%work from home
What people in Aroostook County 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 19° and lows near -1°; warmest in July, with highs near 74° and lows near 54°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Limestone Nnw weather station, 4 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; Limestone 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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Limestone’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 Aroostook County.
Limestone home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Limestone$131,906
- 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.
- Limestone14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Limestone address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Limestone — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.