Glidden, Wisconsin.
Typical home $139,941 (-8.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$273 (+59%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $13,069 -9%
- $153,010$139,941 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $14,513 -9%
- $154,454$139,941 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Glidden$735
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Glidden, WI fell 8.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glidden, Ashland County, Wisconsin
Glidden, in Ashland County, had 437 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Ashland County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ashland County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Glidden is a very small community in Ashland County, Wisconsin, where people tend to know one another. Winters are cold and the summers are mild, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year. Homes here are modestly priced, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels. Across Ashland County, the largest workplaces include Memorial Medical Center, C. G. Bretting Manufacturing Company and the Ashland School District. Unemployment in the county is about where it was a year ago, and the county has lost a few jobs over the past year. The typical commute is a short one.
Things to do. The land around Glidden is wooded and watery, and the best-known places nearby are all a longer drive away. The Chippewa River is a river for paddling and fishing, and the Chequamegon–Nicolet National Forest is a large protected area of woods and trails. Copper Falls State Park is another protected area, also a longer drive away.
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- 123households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
What people in Ashland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ashland County had 7,864 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 20° and lows near 1°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 54°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Butternut 3SW weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ashland County
- Memorial Medical CenterCritical access hospital474FTE
- C. G. Bretting Manufacturing CompanyPaper and paperboard converting machinery manufacturing400
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters257
- Ashland School DistrictSchool district235FTE
- Northland CollegeUniversity or college155
- Columbia Forest ProductsHardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing152
- Northlakes Community Clinic-Ashland Downtown ClinicDentists' offices78
- Essentia HealthFamily physicians' offices71
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,653 people in all across the county; Glidden has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Ashland County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Ashland County.
Glidden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glidden$139,941
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Glidden11
Zip codes with a Glidden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glidden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.