La Grange, Wisconsin.
Typical home $641,464 (+3.7% in a year). Whitewater, WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,876 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,702 +4%
- $618,762$641,464 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $108,389 +20%
- $533,075$641,464 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 Grange$3,367
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in La Grange, WI rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in La Grange, Walworth County, Wisconsin
La Grange is a town of 2,472 people in Walworth County. Half its households earn more than $96,136 a year and half less, against $80,520 across Walworth County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Walworth County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Grange is a small town in Walworth County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and the population skews older than in most places. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is the warmest and summers stay comfortable and mild.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Many have a four-year degree, and a good number work from home. Across Walworth County, some of the largest workplaces are the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Marcus, and Conagra Brands, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Old World Wisconsin, an outdoor history museum, is a short drive away, as is Whitewater Lake, a reservoir good for a day by the water. Alpine Valley Music Theatre, also a short drive off, hosts concerts through the warmer months, and Alpine Valley Resort is nearby for skiing in winter. Geneva Lake, a larger lake with a long shoreline, is a longer drive.
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- 1,176households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 23%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Walworth County had 45,772 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 34 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Whitewater weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Walworth County
- University of Wisconsin-WhitewaterUniversity or college1,228
- MarcusHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities995
- Conagra BrandsFrozen specialty food manufacturing709
- Professional Power ProductsWindmills, electric power, generation-type, manufacturing587
- Elkhorn Area School DistrictSchool district440FTE
- MP SystemsTransmission and distribution line construction418
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters385
- Lake Lawn Resort721110 hotels and motels380
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 124 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,028 people in all across the county; La Grange has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Walworth County, 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 Walworth County and the Whitewater, WI metro.
La Grange home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- La Grange$641,464
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 La Grange listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- La Grange21.74%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- La Grange23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- La Grange6
Zip codes with a La Grange address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls La Grange — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.