St Albans, Maine.
Typical home $229,075 (-0.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$677 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $639 -0%
- $229,714$229,075 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,921 +22%
- $188,154$229,075 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.
- St Albans$1,202
- Maine$2,162
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in St Albans, ME fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in St Albans, Somerset County, Maine
St Albans is a town of 2,045 people in Somerset County. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% 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 manufacturing, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. St Albans is a small town in Somerset County, Maine, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners and the typical home is worth less than in many parts of the country. Poverty is more common here than in many places, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country as a whole. Winters are long and cold, with deep snow, and summers are mild and pleasantly warm.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, government, professional and business services, and the building trades. The commute is a long one, and few people work from home. Across Somerset County, some of the largest workplaces are Sappi North America, which makes paper products in its mills, Redington-Fairview General Hospital, and a local school district. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. The Sebasticook Lake Fishweir Complex is a lake site a short drive away. Farther afield, Unity Pond is a lake, Eaton Mountain is a ski area, and the Colby College Museum of Art offers a quieter indoor outing, each a longer drive from town.
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- 838households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 10%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 28° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 72 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Corinna weather station, 7 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; St Albans 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.
St Albans home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- St Albans$229,075
- Maine$412,002
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 St Albans 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.
- St Albans26.43%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- St Albans23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- St Albans5
Zip codes with a St Albans address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls St Albans — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.