Mapleton, Maine.
Typical home $249,496 (+6.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$753 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,969 +7%
- $233,527$249,496 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,430 +31%
- $191,066$249,496 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.
- Mapleton$1,310
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Mapleton, ME rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mapleton, Aroostook County, Maine
Mapleton, in Aroostook County, had 623 people in the 2020 census. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mapleton is a very small community in Aroostook County, in the far north of Maine. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults, as in many rural towns. Winters here are long, cold and very snowy, summers are pleasantly warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing many. Some people work from home. Across Aroostook County, the largest workplaces include The Aroostook Medical Center, Cary Medical Center and Walmart. Unemployment in the county has risen a little over the past year, and there are somewhat fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Aroostook State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is the Northern Maine Museum of Science. For a longer drive, Scopan Lake offers a lake setting, and Big Rock is a ski area, a good fit for the snowy winters.
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- 269households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 14%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 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, 7 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; Mapleton 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 wavesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively 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 in Mapleton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Mapleton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mapleton$249,496
- 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.
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.
- Mapleton9
Zip codes with a Mapleton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mapleton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.