The story of this market
The typical home in ZIP 04970 sells for about $249,000, or $168 per square foot.
Prices are up +3.2% from a year ago, so sellers still have some momentum. Homes take about 42 days to sell. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $673 a month.
ZIP 04970 — Rangeley
The housing market in 04970 remains stable with low inventory and modest price appreciation. Market activity is driven by limited supply and steady demand for rural residential properties in Somerset County.
Median prices moved up 3.2% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 42 days on market with 5.8 months of supply — a fast-moving market.
12% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 97.5% of asking — demand is running ahead of supply.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 11.9% · poverty 4.4% — a mixed stability profile.
Researched annual trajectory for this ZIP, from published historical series
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 7.0%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
Median annual property tax paid on this ZIP's residential parcels
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 5.3%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
versus the prior ACS vintage
ZCTA 04970, Somerset County ME
Composed from the ARED governance burden registry — tier-native tax structure (state + county + city + special districts), never averaged. State (Maine) — Maine Resident Homestead Property Tax Exemption: Provides a reduction in the valuation of the homestead for property tax purposes. The exemption amount is set by state statute (currently $25,000 of the just value of the property). The formula is: (Just Value - Homestead Exemption) * Local Tax Rate = Tax Due.
Data retrieved from data.census.gov ZCTA-level tables.
Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.