Norridgewock, Maine.
Typical home $243,071 (-1.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$714 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,357 -1%
- $245,428$243,071 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,040 +26%
- $193,031$243,071 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.
- Norridgewock$1,276
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Norridgewock, ME fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Norridgewock, Somerset County, Maine
Norridgewock, in Somerset County, had 1,351 people in the 2020 census. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% 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 people in Somerset 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Norridgewock is a small community in Somerset County, Maine, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Winters are cold and long, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, and summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest. Precipitation arrives steadily through the year, as rain in the warm months and snow in the cold ones.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Somerset County, the largest workplaces include Sappi North America, which makes paper products in its mills, along with Redington-Fairview General Hospital and one of the county's school districts. Unemployment in the county has edged up from a year earlier, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Eaton Mountain, a ski area, is a short drive away, and so is the Sandy River for time by the water. The Lakewood Theater, also a short drive off, puts on live performances. For a longer outing, the Colby College Museum of Art is a longer drive away.
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- 10%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
What people in Somerset County 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 27° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 57°. About 74 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Madison weather station, 8 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; Norridgewock 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
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Norridgewock’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 Somerset County.
Norridgewock home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Norridgewock$243,071
- 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.
- Norridgewock8
Zip codes with a Norridgewock address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Norridgewock — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.