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The median home value in Rumford, ME is $180,764 as of 2026-07-31, up 1.6% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$180,764
Year-over-Year
+1.6%
Population
6,034
Rumford ranks #47 of 49 Maine cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 50.0% below the state's city median of $361,654. It sits in Oxford County, where the county-wide median is $325,751.
Median household income in Rumford is $29,230, so the typical home value is about 6.2× 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).
Rumford police recorded a violent crime rate of 166 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,873 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 Rumford, that value is $180,764. That's up 1.6% from a year earlier. It is about 50.0% below the typical Maine city tracked here.
Homes in Rumford are cheaper than Oxford County as a whole, where the median is $325,751 — a difference of about 44.5%.
Median household income here is $29,230, so the typical home value is about 6.2× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Rumford police reported 166 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 6,034. 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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