County / FIPS 55003
Ashland County
Wisconsin
Ashland County runs 11 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS, of which 1 carry an overall star rating.
At a glance
Public schools
11
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
1
Land area
1,045
Ashland County in numbers
American Community Survey five-year estimates ending 2024. These are sample estimates, not a count — each carries a margin of error, and where that margin is too wide to mean anything the figure is withheld rather than printed.
Population
16,080
Median household income
$62,462
Poverty rate
13.4%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$170,300
Median gross rent
$721
Bachelor's degree or higher
24.5%
One figure is withheld above. The Census Bureau publishes them, but with a margin of error wider than 30% of the value — which for a place this size means the survey sampled too few households to say. They are left out rather than shown with a caveat nobody reads.
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Ashland County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$162.7M
Per resident
$10,150
Change since FY2021
+18%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $138M |
| 2022 | $135M |
| 2023 | $142M |
| 2024 | $154M |
| 2025 | $163M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Ashland County ranks 1850th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Ashland County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Tamarack Health Ashland Medical Center | Ashland |
Public schools in Ashland County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashland High | Ashland School District | Ashland | 626 |
| Ashland Middle | Ashland School District | Ashland | 398 |
| Butternut Elementary | Butternut School District | Butternut | 102 |
| Butternut High | Butternut School District | Butternut | 92 |
| Chequamegon Middle | Chequamegon School District | Glidden | 129 |
| Lake Superior Elementary | Ashland School District | Ashland | 603 |
| Marengo Valley Elementary | Ashland School District | Ashland | 196 |
| Mellen Public School | Mellen School District | Mellen | 270 |
| Glidden Elementary | Chequamegon School District | Glidden | 32 |
| La Pointe Elementary | Bayfield School District | La Pointe | 12 |
| Promethean Charter School | Butternut School District | Butternut | — |