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Raw data sources: American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Methodology: NeighborhoodScout uses over 600 characteristics to build a neighborhood profile… Read more about Scout's Real Estate Data
With a population of 51,380, 22,662 total housing units (homes and apartments), and a median house value of $255,800, La Crosse real estate and house prices are near the national average for all cities and towns.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in La Crosse, accounting for 49.38% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in La Crosse include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 29.06%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 14.43%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 5.92%).
People in La Crosse primarily live in small (one, two or no bedroom) single-family detached homes. La Crosse has a mixture of owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing.
There is a lot of housing in La Crosse built from 1970 to 1999 so parts of town may have that "Brady Bunch" look of homes popular in the '70s and early '80s, although some of these houses were built up through the early '90s as well. There is also a lot of housing in La Crosse built between 1940-1969 ( 29.90%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from before 1939 ( 26.02%). There's also some housing in La Crosse built between 2000 and later ( 12.75%).
Real estate appreciation rates in La Crosse's have tracked to near the national average over the last then years, with the annual appreciation rate averaging 6.23% during the period.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, La Crosse's appreciation rate, at 6.60%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, La Crosse's appreciation rate has been 4.84%, which annualizes to a rate of 20.82%.
Importantly, NeighborhoodScout’s exclusive research found that La Crosse's housing market shows one of the <a href="/blog/highest-appreciating-cities">top real estate appreciation rates in the U.S.A.</a> in the latest quarter, which may signal the city’s near-future real estate investment strength.
Relative to Wisconsin, our data show that La Crosse's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 60% of the other cities and towns in Wisconsin.
One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within La Crosse differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in La Crosse - or in any city or town - that have the best track record of real estate appreciation, by the latest quarter, the last year, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, or even since 2000, to assist you in making the best La Crosse real estate investment or home purchase decisions.
$255,800
for Wisconsin
for nation
22,662
$1,430 / per month