La Crosse County, Wisconsin

• White (non-Hispanic) 105,302 87.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,269 2.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,762 1.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 5,423 4.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 4,064 3.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 256 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 21 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 391 0.3%

• Under 18 23,330 19.4%
• 18–24 18,338 15.2%
• 25–44 29,678 24.6%
• 45–64 27,358 22.7%
• 65 and over 21,784 18.1%

Median household income

$76,443

90% interval $71,143–$81,743

−$1,114 vs WI · 27th of 72

Below poverty line

11.3%

90% interval 9.9%–12.7%

+1.0 pp vs WI · 25th of 72

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.0%

−0.29 pp vs. state

County GDP

$9.9B

2.19% of state

Avg. annual pay

$60,973

Establishments

3,627

• Education & health services 20,848 29.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 14,918 21.3%
• Manufacturing 8,311 11.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 7,586 10.8%
• Professional & business services 5,700 8.1%
• Construction 3,015 4.3%
• Other services 2,730 3.9%
• Financial activities 2,657 3.8%
• Public administration 1,903 2.7%
• Information 730 1.0%
• Natural resources & mining 75 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 97.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

62.2%

−5.6 pp vs WI · 69th of 72

Median gross rent

$1,059

−$28 vs WI · 13th of 72

Owner-occupied

32,012

Renter-occupied

19,485

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 63% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Information, $115,040/yr) pays 5.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,735/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 19 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Democratic 39,008 54.0%
• Republican 32,247 44.6%
• Other / third-party 987 1.4%

• Spanish 2,390 2.1%
• German or other West Germanic 504 0.4%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 304 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 225 0.2%
• Chinese 202 0.2%
• Tagalog 152 0.1%
• Vietnamese 45 0.0%
• Korean 9 0.0%
• Arabic 8 0.0%

Households

51,497

Family households

28,341

55.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

8,052

28.4% of families

Single-mother families

2,086

7.4% of families

Veterans

6,589

6.8% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 20,709 17.1%
• Mainline Protestant 13,800 11.4%
• Evangelical Protestant 13,662 11.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,373 2.8%
• Orthodox 100 0.1%

Health insured

95.6%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

4.4%

±0.6 pp

51st of 72

With a disability

12.9%

±0.9 pp

40th of 72

Bachelor's or higher

36.5%

±1.5 pp

+3.1 pp vs WI · 7th of 72

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

4.5%

90% interval 4.0%–5.0% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

La Crosse County Circuit Court (7th Judicial District)

Judges

18 (Circuit Court judges aggregated across all counties in each administrative Judicial District (Wis. Stat. § 753.06); vintage 2026 wicourts.gov. Note: WI's Circuit Court is per-county (72 trial venues); the 9 active numbered Judicial Districts are administrative chief-judge regions, not jurisdictions. Municipal Court judges (limited jurisdiction: city ordinances) are separate and not counted here.)

Court seats

La Crosse

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

7

7.2 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7