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How the La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202626 of 26 ZIP codes scored · 0.17M residents represented

Score snapshot

54.69Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
55.07Median scoremiddle of 26 scored ZIPs
60.99Highest score55947 · La Crescent
42.99Lowest score54639 · La Farge
18.00Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#112Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
46%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.08M of 0.17M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.17MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.17MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN metro ranking →One page, all 26 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN metro. Nine domains make it up, and they are not spread the same way across the people who live here. Each row divides this metro's ZIP codes into fifths by how they stand against each other on that domain, then counts who lives at each end. If a domain were spread evenly across the metro's residents, every row would read about 20%.

The highest-standing fifth

6 of 26 ZIPs

Share of the metro's residents living in the fifth of its ZIP codes that stand highest on each domain.

Chronic Disease Burden64%109,131 people

Standing highest: 54601 La Crosse54636 Holmen55947 La Crescent

Healthcare Access51%87,936 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 54601 La Crosse54665 Viroqua54667 Westby

Social Need / SDOH36%62,366 people

Standing highest: 54636 Holmen54650 Onalaska54669 West Salem

Disability35%59,970 people

Standing highest: 54636 Holmen54650 Onalaska54669 West Salem

Preventive Care32%54,089 people

Standing highest: 54644 Mindoro54650 Onalaska54669 West Salem

Risk Behavior23%39,942 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 55919 Brownsville55947 La Crescent55974 Spring Grove

Climate / Disaster Risk14%23,612 people

Standing highest: 54623 Coon Valley54653 Rockland54667 Westby

Mental Health8%13,363 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 55931 Eitzen55947 La Crescent55974 Spring Grove

Environmental Hazard7%11,821 people

Standing highest: 54634 Hillsboro54644 Mindoro54651 Ontario

Each fifth is about 6 of this metro’s 26 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 171,058 residents. A ZIP code is compared here only if it carries a resident count to weight it by and enough measured data on that domain — the rest are left out of that domain’s fifths rather than filled in from a coarser geography, which is why this count can sit just below the metro’s scored total.

The mark shows 20% — where a row would sit if that domain were spread evenly across the metro's residents.

Each ZIP code is compared with the other ZIP codes in this metro that are measured across all nine scoring domains — not with all US ZIP codes. Percentages are rounded; higher is healthier in every domain.

Why this matters

The ZipVitals Score combines nine domains of health — from chronic disease and preventive care to environmental hazard, social need, and healthcare access — into one 0–100 index for each ZIP code, computed the same way everywhere from public federal and academic data. The La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN figures on this page are population-weighted rollups of those per-ZIP scores, so they describe the metro's residents rather than a coarser geography relabeled as the metro.

A high score describes favorable documented conditions; it is not a claim about individual residents, and it does not capture everything that shapes a community's health. Where a ZIP code scores low, that pattern reflects structural conditions — investment, environment, and access — far more than the choices of the people who live there.