Merrillan, Wisconsin.
Typical home $239,300 (+14.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$758 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $30,030 +14%
- $209,270$239,300 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,250 +43%
- $167,050$239,300 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.
- Merrillan$1,256
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Merrillan, WI rose 14.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Merrillan, Jackson County, Wisconsin
Merrillan is a village of 562 people in Jackson County. Half its households earn more than $52,273 a year and half less, against $68,110 across Jackson County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Jackson County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Merrillan is a small village in Jackson County, Wisconsin, where residents are younger than in many small towns and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run well below the county's as a whole, and a greater share of people live below the poverty line than is typical, so many households watch their budgets closely. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical trip to work is fairly short. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and highs staying below freezing, while summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Jackson County, some of the largest workplaces are Millis Transfer, a long-distance trucking company, Lunda Construction, a bridge builder, and the Black River Falls School District. Unemployment in the county has stayed low, though the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. The closest of the nearby places is the Silver Mound Archeological District, an archaeological site a short drive away. For time outdoors, Black River State Forest is a protected area a longer drive away, as is the Black River, a river that runs through the area. Wazee Lake, also a longer drive away, offers a lake setting for a day out.
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- 214households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 7,570 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 44 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Neillsville 3ESE weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Millis TransferBulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance610
- Lunda ConstructionBridge construction514
- Black River Falls School DistrictSchool district265FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters264
- Ho-Chunk Gaming Black River Falls and TomahCasinos250
- Black River Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital249FTE
- City of Black River FallsGovernment base facilities operation support services170
- Northern Family FarmsNursery stock growing147
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,778 people in all across the county; Merrillan has none of its own. 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Jackson County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Jackson County.
Merrillan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Merrillan$239,300
- 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.
- Merrillan11
Zip codes with a Merrillan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Merrillan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.