Minot, Maine.
Typical home $380,898 (-3.9% in a year). Lewiston-Auburn, ME metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,119 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $15,560 -4%
- $396,458$380,898 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,626 +22%
- $311,271$380,898 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.
- Minot$1,999
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Minot, ME fell 3.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Minot, Androscoggin County, Maine
Minot is a town of 2,766 people in Androscoggin County. Half its households earn more than $95,655 a year and half less, against $67,873 across Androscoggin County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Androscoggin County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Minot is a small town in Androscoggin County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are comfortably warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in the building trades, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Androscoggin County, some of the largest workplaces are Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston Public Schools and Bates College. Commutes are of moderate length, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Lost Valley Ski Area sits in or beside town, which makes winter days on the slopes an easy outing. A short drive away are Range Ponds State Park, a protected area, and Lake Auburn, a lake. The Bates College Museum of Art, also a short drive away, offers an indoor option when the weather turns.
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- 1,120households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 17%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, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Androscoggin County
- 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
- Procter & GambleSanitary napkins and tampons made from purchased paper or textile fiber557
- Auburn Public SchoolsSchool district512FTE
- RSU 52/msad 52 SchoolsSchool district496FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 126 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,409 people in all across the county; Minot has none of its own. 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Androscoggin 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 Androscoggin County and the Lewiston-Auburn, ME metro.
Minot home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Minot$380,898
- 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.
- Minot9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Minot address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Minot — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.