A typical Castle Hill home is worth roughly $145,000
Builders were permitted 2 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Castle Hill?
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What it takes to buy in Castle Hill
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That covers a typical Castle Hill home, with $142K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,500 a month here, $610 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Maine typical property tax (1.02% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
94% of Castle Hill households own their home
Half of Castle Hill’s homes were built before 1982.
Maine: 74% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,500
Renters already here pay a median of $950, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Aroostook County, ME): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
2 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 2 new homes in Castle Hill in 2025, all single-family houses. Over the past 10 years, Castle Hill has permitted 9 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Castle Hill's population fell by 52 even though 4 new homes were permitted. Homes are holding fewer people: households are getting smaller, or more homes are used part of the year. Across Maine: 0.9 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 2 | 2 | 0 | $709,000 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $917,000 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $250,000 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $100,000 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $196,000 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $175,000 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $5,000 |
| 2016 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $329,000 |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $10,000 |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $175,000 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $50,000 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $90,000 |
| 2005 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $50,000 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $30,000 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
Castle Hill vs. its neighbors
Castle Hill is the 2nd least expensive of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.
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Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.