Porter, Maine.
Typical home $287,661 (+1.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$963 (+176%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,580 +1%
- $284,081$287,661 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,848 +27%
- $225,813$287,661 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.
- Porter$1,510
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Porter, ME rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Porter, Oxford County, Maine
Porter is a town of 1,600 people in Oxford County. Half its households earn more than $60,417 a year and half less, against $60,173 across Oxford County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% 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 shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Porter is a small, rural Maine town where nearly everyone lives in a home they own, a good deal more than is typical across the country. Household incomes sit close to the county's, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than in many places. Winters are long, cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are pleasantly warm and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Oxford County, some of the largest workplaces are Sunday River Skiway, ND Paper and Stephens Memorial Hospital - CAH. The typical commute is a long one, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. The West Branch Tenmile River runs in or beside town, and the Ossipee River and Broad Bay are both a short drive away for time near the water. For a longer outing, White Mountain National Forest is a protected area of woods and mountains a longer drive away. Lake Winnipesaukee, a large lake, is also a longer drive.
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- 636households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 16%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 29° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 56°. About 78 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the East Hiram 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; Porter 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.
Porter home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Porter$287,661
- 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.
- Porter6
Zip codes with a Porter address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Porter — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.