Medford, Wisconsin.
Typical home $241,552 (+8.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$671 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,469 +9%
- $222,083$241,552 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,023 +27%
- $189,529$241,552 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.
- Medford$1,268
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Medford, WI rose 8.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Medford, Taylor County, Wisconsin
Medford is a city of 4,349 people in Taylor County. Half its households earn more than $59,842 a year and half less, against $69,350 across Taylor County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Taylor County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Medford is a small city in Taylor County, in northern Wisconsin. Incomes here run below the county's, and more homes are lived in by their owners than rented. Winters are long, cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Some of the largest workplaces in town are Marathon Cheese, the Medford Area Public School District and Aspirus Medford Hospital and Clinics. Most people have a short drive to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Council Grounds State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Spirit Lake and South Twin Lake are lakes that are also a longer drive away. Grandfather Falls, a waterfall, is likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 2,119households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 14 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Taylor County had 7,776 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 57°. About 57 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Medford weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Medford
- Marathon Cheese (medford)Cheese, natural, manufacturing570
- Medford Area Public School DistrictSchool district466FTE
- Nestle Pizza ManufacturingSoups, frozen, manufacturing365
- Aspirus Medford Hospital and ClinicsCritical access hospital303FTE
- Weather Shield Mfg Inc. ---Millwork Plant 02Windows, wood and covered wood, manufacturing203
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters201
- Alwin Manufacuring CompBathroom and toilet accessories, plastics, manufacturing72
- AWS/gbLouver windows, metal, manufacturing64
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,125 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Taylor 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 Taylor County.
Medford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Medford$241,552
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Medford listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Medford16.04%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Medford36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Medford8
Zip codes with a Medford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Medford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.