La Crosse, Kansas.
Typical home $94,955 (+4.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$301 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,209 +5%
- $90,746$94,955 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,038 +32%
- $71,917$94,955 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.
- La Crosse$498
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in La Crosse, KS rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in La Crosse, Rush County, Kansas
La Crosse is a city of 1,266 people in Rush County. Half its households earn more than $53,750 a year and half less, against $59,970 across Rush County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Rush County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 4.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. La Crosse is a small city in Rush County, Kansas, and most homes in town are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. The winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and the summers are hot, with July the warmest. Snow falls in a moderate amount each year, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount of moisture.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, other services and professional and business services also employing people. The largest workplaces in La Crosse include Rush County Memorial Hospital, Locust Grove Village and LaCrosse Schools. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Kansas Barbed Wire Museum is a museum in or beside town. Farther afield, a longer drive away, Fort Larned National Historic Site is a protected area preserving a frontier fort, and the Pawnee River is a river for time outdoors. The Sternberg Museum of Natural History, also a longer drive away, is a museum of natural history.
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- 567households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rush County had 1,029 jobs in 2025, 4.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 64°. About 14 inches of snow and 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bison 3NW weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in La Crosse
- Rush County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital84FTE
- Locust Grove VillageNursing homes70
- LaCrosse SchoolsSchool district49FTE
- Flame EngineeringManufacture propane torches25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 135 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in La Crosse’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Rush County.
La Crosse home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- La Crosse$94,955
- Kansas$246,055
- United States$366,157
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.
- La Crosse10
Zip codes with a La Crosse address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls La Crosse — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.