Newry, Maine.
Typical home $536,033 (+0.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,904 (+209%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,918 +1%
- $532,115$536,033 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $140,013 +35%
- $396,020$536,033 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.
- Newry$2,814
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Newry, ME rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newry, Oxford County, Maine
Newry is a town of 411 people in Oxford County. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% 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 people in Oxford 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newry is a very small town in the western Maine mountains, with an older population than most places and nearly all homes lived in by their owners. Few residents live below the poverty line, and homes here are valued well above what many people expect to find in rural Maine. Winters are long and cold, with a great deal of snow, and summers are warm without being hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Oxford County, the largest workplaces include a local school district, Sunday River Skiway and ND Paper. Unemployment across the county is slightly higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs has dipped a little. A good share of residents work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Sunday River, a ski area, is a short drive away, and Grafton Notch State Park, a protected area of mountain scenery, is close by as well. The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum is also a short drive from town. For lake country, Umbagog Lake is a longer drive away.
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- 38%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Oxford County 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 24° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 54°. About 112 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Andover weather station, 10 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; Newry 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 weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Oxford 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 Oxford County.
Newry home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newry$536,033
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 11 Newry listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Newry9.11%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Newry37
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Newry9
Zip codes with a Newry address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newry — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.