Census-designated place · Oxford County, Maine

Fryeburg, Maine

Fryeburg is a census-designated place in Oxford County, Maine. It has 1,484 residents. Fryeburg, Maine has a quality-of-life score of 46 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,424 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Maine it ranks #83 of 104 cities and towns. It ranks best on fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (low), high school diploma or higher (high) and public libraries (high). It ranks worst on comfortable days (low), access to exercise opportunities (low) and depression (high).

46Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,424 of 15,651 cities and towns
Maine: #83 of 104 in ME
Population: 1,484 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 496.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 2326875

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety74#4,020/15,637
Economy26#11,577/15,631
Housing28#10,722/14,977
Health22#12,235/15,609
Healthcare58#6,512/15,650
Environment75#3,863/15,453
Education44#8,745/15,649
Infrastructure59#6,464/15,650
Community43#8,985/15,651
Leisure & amenities52#7,548/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Fryeburg, Maine ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Oxford County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low4.7 µg/m³
98/100Maine 4.9 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyOxford County value
High school diploma or higher · high91.6%
98/100Maine 94.8%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Public libraries · high3.0 /10k
96/100Maine 1.9 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesOxford County value
Hot days · low2 days
95/100Maine 2 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationOxford County value
Violent crime rate · low69 /100k
94/100Maine 93 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationOxford County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low116 min
89/100Maine 166 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesOxford County value

Weaknesses

Comfortable days · low22.2%
4/100Maine 21.2%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationOxford County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low39.6%
5/100Maine 66.5%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOxford County value
Depression · high28.6%
7/100Maine 28.4%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Flu vaccinations · low30.0%
8/100Maine 41.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOxford County value
New business applications · low8.2 /1k
8/100Maine 10.0 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauOxford County value
Injury deaths · high124 /100k
12/100Maine 113 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOxford County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
72.5% (2015-2019) → 90.7% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
56.8% (2015-2019) → 69.0% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.3× (2015-2019) → 4.6× (2020-2024)
+42%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
10.9% (2015-2019) → 2.8% (2020-2024)
−8 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
High school diploma or higherImproving
85.5% (2015-2019) → 91.6% (2020-2024)
+6.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
31.4% (2015-2019) → 36.9% (2020-2024)
+5.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Fryeburg, Maine improved on 1 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Broadband+18 points72.5% → 90.7%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Fryeburg, Maine between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	21.7 min2015-2019	20.8 min2020-2024	−0.9 min	Within the margin of error	58%
Bachelor's degree or higher	22.2%2015-2019	18.9%2020-2024	−3.3 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Broadband subscriptions	72.5%2015-2019	90.7%2020-2024	+18 points	Improved	87%
Effective property tax rate	1.52%2015-2019	0.99%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	92%
High school diploma or higher	85.5%2015-2019	91.6%2020-2024	+6.1 points	Within the margin of error	87%
Home price to income ratio	3.3×2015-2019	4.6×2020-2024	+1.4×	Within the margin of error	12%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4402015-2019	0.4072020-2024	−0.033	Within the margin of error	76%
Median household income	$53,6842015-2019	$57,0832020-2024	+6.3%	Within the margin of error	13%
Rent as share of income	31.4%2015-2019	36.9%2020-2024	+5.5 points	Within the margin of error	20%
Rent-burdened households	56.8%2015-2019	69.0%2020-2024	+12 points	Within the margin of error	19%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Fryeburg, Maine five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Fryeburg, Maine in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Fryeburg, Maine itself moved +0.8 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,484 residents (±317)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 50–59 men (+10.0 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,484 residents (±317)

Fryeburg, Maine
Maine share

White93%1,386
Black0.5%†8
Hispanic or Latino3.2%†48

Education

1,069 residents (±237)

Fryeburg, Maine
Maine share

No high school diploma8.4%†90
High school or GED45%†479
Some college11%†

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

594 households (±130)

Fryeburg, Maine
Maine share

Under $25k18%†108
$25k–50k27%†159
$50k–75k23%†135
$75k–100k7.1%†42
$100k–150k11%†66
$150k–200k11%†67
$200k or more2.9%†17

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $75k–100k (+6.3 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

594 households (±130)

Fryeburg, Maine
Maine share

Own75%445
Rent25%†149

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

116 households (±53)

Fryeburg, Maine
Maine share

Under $75032%†37
$750–1,00059%†69
$1,000–1,5008.6%†10

Home values

445 homes (±117)

Fryeburg, Maine
Maine share

Under $150k11%†47
$150k–250k29%†129
$250k–400k44%†198

Age of homes

734 homes (±142)

Fryeburg, Maine
Maine share

2010 or later1.5%†11
2000–20094.4%†32
1980–199925%†184

Size of homes

734 homes (±142)

Fryeburg, Maine
Maine share

Studio2.0%†15
1 bedroom7.9%†58
2 bedrooms35%†257

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

707 workers (±238)

Fryeburg, Maine
Maine share

Drive alone75%†527
Carpool20%†140
Public transit0.6%†4
Walk3.5%†25
Bike0.0%0
Work from home1.6%†11
Other0.0%0

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Work from home (−15.3 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

696 workers (±236)

Fryeburg, Maine
Maine share

Under 15 min21%†144
15–29 min56%†389
30–44 min14%†99

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Oxford County, the county holding most of Fryeburg's residents.

Oxford County has 1,381 employer establishments, 230 for every 10,000 residents (0.93× the US rate of 248; 0.74× Maine's), with 14,143 paid employees at an average annual pay of $49,082. The Census Bureau also counts 5,066 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,381; 5,066 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 230; US 248 · Maine 309
Paid employees: 14,143
Average annual pay: $49,082; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Oxford County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	141	23.5	1.52×More than typical	593	$59,963	725
Restaurants and other eating places	87	14.5	0.79×Fewer than typical	1,072	$22,525	16
Construction of buildings	82	13.6	1.81×More than typical	284	$50,173	374
Ambulatory health care services	59	9.8	0.47×Fewer than typical	492	$52,037	172
Building equipment contractors	52	8.7	1.44×More than typical	238	$62,815	108
Services to buildings and dwellings	51	8.5	1.26×More than typical	89	$41,596	465
Lessors of real estate	45	7.5	0.61×Fewer than typical	137	$37,591	453
Full-service restaurants	40	6.7	0.87×About typical	577	$24,795	7
Other specialty trade contractors	39	6.5	2.59×More than typical	228	$59,197	226
Truck transportation	39	6.5	1.28×More than typical	170	$53,765	58
Automotive repair and maintenance	37	6.2	1.22×About typical	142	$40,613	112
Gasoline stations	35	5.8	1.80×More than typical	283	$25,774	—

Rank places for an industry Open Oxford County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 60,076 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Fryeburg, Maine: $0 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,995
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

2.7KFY2017
8.7KFY2018
2.3KFY2019
-495.8FY2020
-3.8KFY2021

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Fryeburg, Maine, so they do not add up across cities.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Fryeburg is mostly in Oxford County.

See federal money in Oxford County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Fryeburg, Maine is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Jared F. GoldenD-ME-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 70%Missed 2.8%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Oxford County52100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Oxford County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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