Moscow, 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 Moscow, Somerset County, Maine
Moscow is a town of 475 people in Somerset County. Half its households earn more than $45,526 a year and half less, against $58,179 across Somerset County. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Somerset County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Moscow is a very small town where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and a great deal of snow through the season, while summers are pleasantly warm, July being the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in the building trades, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Somerset County, some of the largest workplaces are Sappi North America, which makes paper products, and Redington-Fairview General Hospital. Commutes are long, and few people work from home. The county has lost a few jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is slightly higher than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Baker Mountain, a ski area, is a short drive away, which suits the long snowy winters. Farther afield, Sugarloaf is a larger ski area, and Flagstaff Lake is a reservoir, both a longer drive away. Norridgewock, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away for those who like history.
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- 410households
- 5%of adults have a degree
- 39 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Somerset County had 15,847 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 55°. About 109 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Long Falls Dam weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Somerset County
- Sappi North AmericaPaper products made in paper mills796
- Redington-fairview General HospitalCritical access hospital691FTE
- RSU 54/msad 54 SchoolsSchool district510FTE
- RSU 49/msad 49 SchoolsSchool district376FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters301
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters255
- Sebasticook Valley HospitalCritical access hospital210FTE
- Cianbro1208
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,763 people in all across the county; Moscow 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 weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Somerset 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 Somerset County.
Moscow 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.
- Moscow6
Zip codes with a Moscow address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Moscow — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.