La Crosse is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 51,380 people and 18 associated neighborhoods, La Crosse is the 12th largest community in Wisconsin.

Also of interest is that La Crosse has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.80% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

La Crosse is also a major college town with a large number of people who are 18 years or older and attending college. As is often the case in college towns, the many students that live in La Crosse have a strong influence on the local culture and entertainment scene, which may seem dormant by comparison in the summer months when much of the student population is away. In the fall, the return of students has a reinvigorating effect on the community. Because colleges are lasting institutions, they have a stabilizing effect on the economy by providing direct local benefits such as jobs for faculty and staff and spending by students. La Crosse’s economy is one such example of this.

Not only is La Crosse a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a very large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. That’s because La Crosse is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes La Crosse a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

One of the benefits of La Crosse is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.55 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

The education level of La Crosse citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 35.15% of adults in La Crosse have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in La Crosse in 2018 was $32,811, which is middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $131,244 for a family of four. However, La Crosse contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call La Crosse home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of La Crosse residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in La Crosse include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in La Crosse is English. Other important languages spoken here include Miao/Hmong and Polish.