Mellen, Wisconsin.
Typical home $137,458 (-5.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $239 (-25%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $8,123 -6%
- $145,581$137,458 since Sep 2025
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.
- Mellen$721
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Mellen, WI fell 5.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mellen, Ashland County, Wisconsin
Mellen is a city of 698 people in Ashland County. Half its households earn more than $41,875 a year and half less, against $62,462 across Ashland County. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mellen is a very small city in northern Wisconsin, and most people here own the homes they live in. Household incomes sit well below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are long and cold, with a great deal of snow, while summers are mild and pleasant for being outdoors.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Ashland County, Memorial Medical Center, C. G. Bretting Manufacturing Company and Walmart are among the largest workplaces. Commutes are short, fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the county has seen a slight dip in jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Copper Falls State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Chequamegon–Nicolet National Forest, a large protected woodland, and to Whitecap Mountain, a ski area that suits the snowy winters.
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- 264households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 13 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
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 21° and lows near 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 55°. About 103 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mellen Northeast weather station, 3 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; Mellen has one 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.
Mellen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mellen$137,458
- 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.
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.
- Mellen6
Zip codes with a Mellen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mellen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Mellen
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54546 | Mellen | 1,332 | — | $151,022 |
| 54527 | Glidden | 932 | — | $134,542 |