Sebec, Maine.
Typical home $280,795 (+1.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$181 (+14%) since May 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $4,920 +2%
- $275,875$280,795 since Sep 2025
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.
- Sebec$1,474
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Sebec, ME rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sebec, Piscataquis County, Maine
Sebec is a town of 665 people in Piscataquis County. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Piscataquis County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Piscataquis 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sebec is a very small town in Piscataquis County, Maine, where almost everyone owns the home they live in and very few households are renters. Poverty is less common here than in many places, and homes are valued at a fairly modest level. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and a great deal of snow, while July brings pleasantly warm days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Piscataquis County, some of the largest workplaces are Mayo Regional Hospital, JSI Store Fixtures Milo and Hardwood Products Company. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and some people work from home. The county has recently seen slightly fewer jobs than the year before, and unemployment there has edged up.
Things to do. Peaks-Kenny State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, and the Sebec River and the East Branch Pleasant River are also close by for time near the water. Farther afield, Schoodic Lake, a reservoir, is a longer drive away. With so much snow each winter and plenty of rain and melted snow through the year, the rivers and woods change a good deal with the seasons.
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- 254households
- 5%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Piscataquis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Piscataquis County had 5,189 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 56°. About 92 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Barnard weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Piscataquis County
- Mayo Regional HospitalCritical access hospital284FTE
- JSI Store Fixtures MiloFixtures, store display, manufacturing155
- Hardwood Products CompanyApplicators, wood, manufacturing144
- RSU 68/msad 68 SchoolsSchool district140FTE
- Hibbard Skilled Nursing CenterSkilled nursing facilities124
- Creative OptionsGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability122
- RSU 80/msad 04 SchoolsSchool district119FTE
- Charles a Dean Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital107FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,281 people in all across the county; Sebec 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Piscataquis 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 Piscataquis County.
Sebec home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sebec$280,795
- 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.
- Sebec6
Zip codes with a Sebec address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sebec — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.