Linneus, Maine.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,272 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
Living in Linneus, Aroostook County, Maine
Linneus is a town of 947 people in Aroostook County. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Linneus is a small town in Aroostook County, in northern Maine, where most people know their neighbors and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. The population is on the older side, with a median age well above what you would find in many parts of the country. Winters are cold, among the colder in the nation, and summers are mild and comfortable, with a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades and manufacturing also employing many people. Across Aroostook County, the largest workplaces include The Aroostook Medical Center, Cary Medical Center and Walmart. Commutes are fairly short, and few people work from home. Few adults hold a four-year degree, incomes sit below the county's in many households, and the county has lost a small share of its jobs in the past year.
Things to do. For a short drive, the Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum offers a look at the region's past and its art. A longer drive brings you to East Grand Lake, a large reservoir, and to the Island Falls Opera House, a theatre. The West Branch Mattawamkeag River, also a longer drive away, is a river worth seeing for those who like to be near moving water.
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- 451households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 5%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 23° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 54°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Houlton International Airport weather station, 10 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; Linneus has none 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.
Linneus home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Linneus12
Zip codes with a Linneus address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Linneus — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.