Peru
What’s happening
Weather
Forecast →Upcoming events
Put the next local happening — a market, a meeting, a concert — on the map.
Local news
Headlines via Google News · Articles belong to their publishers.
The Peru album
Outdoors in Peru
Parks & trails →Know a trail or park that’s missing? Anyone can add it to OpenStreetMap, and it shows up here on the next refresh.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
About Peru
Town in Maine, USPeru is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. Peru is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England City and Town Area. The population was 1,488 at the 2020 census.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
Town numbers
Housing in Peru
The typical Peru home is worth about $239,000, down 1.6% in a year, 43% below the Maine typical home.
Schools in Peru
All Peru schools →School Grade C-
The public schools Peru’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 76% of Maine’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within ME. Ratings are from neighbors.
Where Peru is
Explore map →Imported town boundary