La Crosse, Virginia.
Typical home $172,463 (+3.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$551 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,207 +4%
- $166,255$172,463 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,031 +34%
- $128,432$172,463 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$905
- Virginia$2,164
- 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, VA rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in La Crosse, Mecklenburg County, Virginia
La Crosse is a town of 614 people in Mecklenburg County. Half its households earn more than $33,750 a year and half less, against $57,045 across Mecklenburg County. Unemployment in Mecklenburg County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mecklenburg County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 very small town in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, where people know their neighbors and the pace is unhurried. Household incomes run well below the county's, and homes here are modestly priced. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people get to work in a short drive. Winters are cold but not severe, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July, with rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Across Mecklenburg County, some of the largest workplaces are Mecklenburg County Public Schools, Community Memorial Hospital and Walmart. The county has added a few more jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is a little higher than it was a year ago. Working from home is uncommon.
Things to do. The outdoors is the main draw, though each place is a longer drive away. Kerr Lake is a large reservoir for boating and fishing, and Lake Gaston is another reservoir in the same direction. The Dan River offers a quieter stretch of water for anyone who likes to paddle or fish from the bank.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 15 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Mecklenburg County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mecklenburg County had 11,904 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the John H Kerr Dam weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mecklenburg County
- Mecklenburg County Public SchoolsSchool district755FTE
- Community Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital601FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters304
- The Shade StoreShade manufacturing168
- Clarksville Health & RehabSkilled nursing facilities138
- Food LionGrocery stores90
- Mecklenburg Electric Chase City DistrictDistribution of electric power71
- Food LionGrocery stores69
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,299 people in all across the county; La Crosse has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
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 low. 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 Mecklenburg 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$172,463
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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 Crosse8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
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.