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Mellen city, Wisconsin: commercial real estate data.
Mellen city is a Census city of 681 people across 1.88 square miles of land, in Ashland County. Median household income is $41,875, 79.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $788,000.
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Mellen
What Mellen is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.88 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land362 plus or minus 77
- County holding the largest share of its areaAshland County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mellen
How many people live in Mellen
- Population681 plus or minus 145
- Median age45.2 plus or minus 10.3
- Population under 18157 plus or minus 56
- Share under 1823.1 percent plus or minus 6.6
- Population 65 and over184 plus or minus 48
- Share 65 and over27.0 percent
- Households264
- Family households151 plus or minus 31
- Share of households that are families57.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mellen
Income and work in Mellen
- Median household income$41,875
- Per capita income$27,965
- Civilian labor force296 plus or minus 70
- Employed276 plus or minus 67
- Unemployed20 plus or minus 17
- Unemployment rate6.8 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Adults 25 and over465
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher94.6 percent plus or minus 23.3
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher13.3 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.7 percent plus or minus 2.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mellen
Housing in Mellen
- Housing units314
- Occupied units264
- Vacant units50 plus or minus 27
- Vacancy rate15.9 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Owner occupied211
- Renter occupied53 plus or minus 21
- Ownership rate79.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$78,100
- Median gross rent, monthly$594 plus or minus $124
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.0 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Single family units243
- Share single family77.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more45 plus or minus 25
- Share in buildings of two or more14.3 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Mobile homes26 plus or minus 15
- Median year structure built1952
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mellen
How Mellen gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute248 plus or minus 65
- Commuting under 15 minutes154 plus or minus 44
- Share commuting under 15 minutes62.1 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more63 plus or minus 24
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more25.4 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Drove alone77.0 percent
- Carpooled4.6 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Public transport1.5 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Walked11.5 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Worked from home5.0 percent plus or minus 2.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mellen
SBA 7(a) lending to Mellen borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$788,000
- Average approval$788,000
- Median approval$788,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$788,000
- Largest approval$788,000
- Jobs supported41
- Jobs per approval41.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more100.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Mellen
SBA 504 lending to Mellen borrowers
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$675,000
- Average approval$337,500
- Median approval$493,000
- Largest approval$493,000
- Jobs supported2
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs2
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Ashland County, not Mellen
Ashland County context, not Mellen figures
These are Ashland County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Mellen measurements.
- Establishments in Ashland County491
- Employment at those establishments, Ashland County5,987
- Covered employment, Ashland County7,940
- Average annual pay, Ashland County$50,101
- Average weekly wage, Ashland County$963
- Housing units permitted, Ashland County29
- Of those, single family, Ashland County29
- County product, 2024, Ashland County$929,137,000
- County product change over the prior year, Ashland County4.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Ashland County$55,641
Every figure in this section is published for Ashland County as a whole and is not a measurement of Mellen. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Mellen questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Mellen, Wisconsin?
681, in 264 households. Mellen city covers 1.88 square miles of land, which is 362 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Mellen in?
Ashland County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Mellen?
$41,875. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $78,100. Median gross rent is $594 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Mellen businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $788,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $788,000, plus 2 504 approvals worth $675,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Mellen, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Mellen borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Mellen. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Mellen figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Ashland County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Mellen.
Is zoning published for Mellen?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.