Mexico, Maine.
Typical home $180,515 (-3.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$552 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,891 -3%
- $186,406$180,515 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,946 +20%
- $150,569$180,515 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.
- Mexico$947
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Mexico, ME fell 3.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mexico, Oxford County, Maine
Mexico, in Oxford County, had 2,234 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $50,972 a year and half less, against $60,173 across Oxford County; 25% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mexico is a small community in Oxford County, Maine, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and a good many residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the winters are long, cold and very snowy, with a fair amount of rain through the rest of the year and warm but not hot summers.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in banks, insurance and property. Across Oxford County, the largest workplaces include Sunday River Skiway, ND Paper and Stephens Memorial Hospital. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, and the number of jobs there slipped slightly from one year to the next. Most people drive a moderate distance to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Black Mountain of Maine is a ski area, and the Ellis River and Webb River offer river scenery close to town. A longer drive brings you to Rangeley Lake, a lake that draws people to the water and the woods. With so much snow each winter, skiing and other cold-weather outdoor pastimes suit the season well.
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- 830households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 25%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents 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 28° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 58°. About 88 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rumford Sse 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; Mexico has none 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mexico’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 Oxford County.
Mexico home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mexico$180,515
- 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.
- Mexico15
Zip codes with a Mexico address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mexico — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.