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The median home value in Fairfield, ME is $244,558 as of 2026-07-31, up 1.13% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$244,558
Year-over-Year
+1.13%
Population
6,557
Fairfield ranks #44 of 49 Maine cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 32.4% below the state's city median of $361,654. It sits in Somerset County, where the county-wide median is $238,047.
Median household income in Fairfield is $52,409, so the typical home value is about 4.7× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Fairfield police recorded a violent crime rate of 122 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 2,196 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Fairfield, that value is $244,558. That's up 1.13% from a year earlier. It is about 32.4% below the typical Maine city tracked here.
Homes in Fairfield are more expensive than Somerset County as a whole, where the median is $238,047 — a difference of about 2.7%.
Median household income here is $52,409, so the typical home value is about 4.7× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Fairfield police reported 122 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 6,557. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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