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La Crosse

Town, Alachua County. Population 306 (2025), +0.7% on the prior year, -3.2% since 2020 Last updated 2026-10-04.

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La Crosse

Boundary: US Census Bureau TIGER/Line, simplified for drawing. 4.63 square miles of land.

Population

2025
Population306Population, April 1, 1979 to 20251979392 high2025
Change since the prior year+0.7%2024 to 2025
Change since 2020-3.2%2020 to 2025
Census 20203162020

University of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research, Florida Estimates of Population, retrieved 2026-10-01 | Population estimates

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Basis of the latest figureestimate2025

Population by year

April 1 of each year. Basis is census in a census year, otherwise BEBR's estimate.

YearPopulationBasisChange
2025306estimate+0.7%
2024304estimate-0.3%
2023305estimate+5.9%
2022288estimate-8.3%
2021314estimate-0.6%
2020316census-19.4%
2019392estimate+0.5%
2018390estimate+4.3%
2017374estimate-1.3%
2016379estimate+1.6%
2015373estimate0.0%
2014373estimate+3.6%
2013360estimate+1.1%
2012356estimate+1.1%
2011352estimate-2.2%
2010360census+78.2%
2009202estimate0.0%
2008202estimate+3.6%
2007195estimate+2.6%
2006190estimate+2.2%
2005186estimate+10.7%
2004168estimate+11.3%
2003151estimate+5.6%
2002143estimate-5.3%
2001151estimate+5.6%
2000143census-4.7%
1999150estimate+4.2%
1998144estimate+3.6%
1997139estimate0.0%
1996139estimate+23.0%
1995113estimate-3.4%
1994117estimate0.0%
1993117estimate-5.6%
1992124estimate0.0%
1991124estimaten/a
1989154estimate+1.3%
1988152estimate+4.8%
1987145estimate-3.3%
1986150estimate-7.4%
1985162estimate+1.2%
1984160estimate-3.0%
1983165estimate+0.6%
1982164estimate+7.9%
1981152estimaten/a
1979350estimaten/a

Labor force (county figures)

Aug 2026

County figures, no city estimate published by FloridaCommerce

Unemployment rate (Alachua County)5.4%Unemployment rate, not seasonally adjusted, Aug 2016 to Aug 2026Aug 20168.9% highAug 2026
Labor force (Alachua County)139,681Aug 2026
Employment (Alachua County)132,074Aug 2026
Unemployed (Alachua County)7,607Aug 2026
Rate a year earlier5.0%Aug 2025
Labor force, change on a year earlier+0.3%Aug 2026

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, retrieved 2026-10-01 | Labor force page

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Latest month is preliminaryyesAug 2026

Monthly, last three years

Not seasonally adjusted. The latest month may be preliminary.

MonthLabor forceEmployedUnemployedRate
Aug 2026139,681132,0747,6075.4%
Jul 2026140,103132,1427,9615.7%
Jun 2026140,465132,7197,7465.5%
May 2026141,962134,3947,5685.3%
Apr 2026145,034137,3877,6475.3%
Mar 2026144,045136,6447,4015.1%
Feb 2026144,156136,3017,8555.4%
Jan 2026142,218134,3037,9155.6%
Dec 2025143,170135,7177,4535.2%
Nov 2025143,982135,7678,2155.7%
Sep 2025144,373137,7646,6094.6%
Aug 2025139,227132,2716,9565.0%
Jul 2025140,116133,3166,8004.9%
Jun 2025139,720133,2536,4674.6%
May 2025141,117135,1925,9254.2%
Apr 2025144,563139,2195,3443.7%
Mar 2025144,004138,1465,8584.1%
Feb 2025143,301137,8105,4913.8%
Jan 2025141,714136,1585,5563.9%
Dec 2024141,724136,7954,9293.5%
Nov 2024142,655136,7905,8654.1%
Oct 2024143,727138,1425,5853.9%
Sep 2024144,106138,8455,2613.7%
Aug 2024139,329133,3555,9744.3%
Jul 2024139,993134,1665,8274.2%
Jun 2024139,791133,8275,9644.3%
May 2024138,975134,0434,9323.5%
Apr 2024142,815138,3124,5033.2%
Mar 2024140,630135,4825,1483.7%
Feb 2024141,797136,9824,8153.4%
Jan 2024140,912135,9584,9543.5%
Dec 2023141,060136,5114,5493.2%
Nov 2023143,045138,0085,0373.5%
Oct 2023144,722139,3905,3323.7%
Sep 2023144,503139,6274,8763.4%
Aug 2023140,020134,7995,2213.7%

Annual averages

YearLabor forceEmployedUnemployedRate
2025142,299135,8746,4254.5%
2024141,371136,0585,3133.8%
2023141,987137,3554,6323.3%
2022139,152134,9014,2513.1%
2021137,132131,5855,5474.0%
2020133,862126,1327,7305.8%
2019137,263132,9614,3023.1%
2018135,934131,2424,6923.5%
2017134,333129,0015,3324.0%
2016131,892125,9715,9214.5%
2015129,352123,3296,0234.7%
2014128,739121,7576,9825.4%
2013128,573120,8827,6916.0%
2012128,888120,0178,8716.9%
2011128,559118,6539,9067.7%

Business base

Aug 2026
Licensed food service, lodging and alcohol businesses2New licenses by month, Dec 2020 to Aug 2026Dec 20201 highAug 2026
Food service licenses0Aug 2026
Lodging licenses0Aug 2026
Alcoholic beverage licenses2Aug 2026
New licenses, last 12 months0Aug 2026
New business filings, last 12 months (postal city)2Sep 2026
Change on the 12 months before-33.3%Sep 2026
New filings, latest month0Sep 2026

Florida DBPR active licensure base files: public food service, public lodging and retail alcoholic beverage licenses, retrieved 2026-10-01; Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz) bulk corporate data files, new entity filings by month, retrieved 2026-10-01 | Licenses Business formations

Licenses are placed inside the city limits by their geocoded address.

Business formations are by postal city: La Crosse, which is not the city limits.

No ZIP code has its Census internal point inside this place, so ZIP Code Business Patterns are not shown.

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Licenses by type

Counted licenses in DBPR's food service, lodging and alcoholic beverage files, placed by geocoded address.

License typeFileActive
2APSalcohol2

Filings by entity type, last 12 months

Sunbiz new entity filings by the ZIP code of the principal address, grouped to the USPS postal city (postal city: La Crosse)

Entity typeLast 12 months12 months before
Florida limited liability companies13
Florida profit corporations10
Florida non-profit corporations00
Out of state entities registering in Florida00
Partnerships, trusts and other filings00

Property roll

2026 preliminary
Total just value$81.4M
Total taxable value (non school)$32.7M2026 preliminary
Total taxable value (school)$39.3M2026 preliminary
Just value, change on the prior roll-9.7%2025 final roll to 2026 preliminary
Taxable value (non school), change on the prior roll+8.8%2025 final roll to 2026 preliminary
Total just value, prior roll$90.2M2025 final roll
New construction value$1.12M2026 preliminary
Parcels4102026 preliminary

Florida Department of Revenue, NAL tax roll (name, address, legal), 2026 preliminary and final as posted, retrieved 2026-10-03

Parcels are placed by Census block group through the Census Bureau's block assignment file; a parcel in a block group that straddles the limits is apportioned. Census 2020 block groups; 58% of the county's just value lies in a place. Medians are over the parcels whose block group lies mostly in the place. Qualified sales: the roll's own sale fields, qualification codes 01 and 02, improved, single parcel.

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Qualified sales, last 12 months0Jun 2025 to May 2026
Just value, residential$34.7M2026 preliminary
Just value, commercial$1.12M2026 preliminary
Just value, industrial$3.94M2026 preliminary
Just value, agricultural$32.1M2026 preliminary
Just value, vacant$2.63M2026 preliminary
Just value, institutional$1.28M2026 preliminary
Just value, government$4.39M2026 preliminary
Just value, other$1.17M2026 preliminary

Just value by use group

Department of Revenue land use codes grouped: residential 001 to 009, commercial 011 to 039, industrial 041 to 049, agricultural 050 to 069, vacant 000, 010, 040 and 070, institutional 071 to 079, government 080 to 089, other 090 to 099. Taxable is the non school taxable value. Just value change compares with the 2025 final roll, summed the same way.

Use groupParcelsJust valueTaxable (non school)New constructionResidential unitsJust value change
Residential195$34.7M$18M$798K205+1.9%
Commercial3$1.12M$881K$0n/a+7.0%
Industrial4$3.94M$3.14M$0n/a+7.8%
Agricultural128$32.1M$8.41M$304Kn/a-22.3%
Vacant64$2.63M$2.12M$7.67Kn/a-2.4%
Institutional4$1.28M$0.0K$13.5Kn/a+1.8%
Government3$4.39M$0$0n/a+1.1%
Other8$1.17M$109K$0n/a-32.4%

Housing

2020 to 2024 ACS
Housing units56Homeownership rate, 1990 to 2024199095.0% high2024
Occupied units472020 to 2024 ACS
Vacant units92020 to 2024 ACS
Owner occupied households442020-2024 5-Year
Renter occupied households32020-2024 5-Year
Homeownership rate93.6%2020 to 2024 ACS
Cost burdened households, all tenures (over 30% of income)11.0%2025
Cost burdened renter households25.0%2025

Shimberg Center for Housing Studies, Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse, retrieved 2026-10-01 | Housing data

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Severely cost burdened renters (over 50%)25.0%2025
Median single family sale price$380K2024

Cost burden by income, 2025

Households by the share of income spent on housing, Shimberg Center estimates for 2025.

TenureIncome (share of area median)30% or less30.1 to 50%Over 50%
All households30% AMI or less0012
All households30.01-50% AMI1700
All households50.01-80% AMI2200
All households80.01-120% AMI1000
All householdsGreater than 120% AMI4800
Renters30% AMI or less007
Renters30.01-50% AMI700
Renters50.01-80% AMI700
Renters80.01-120% AMI000
RentersGreater than 120% AMI700
Owners30% AMI or less005
Owners30.01-50% AMI1000
Owners50.01-80% AMI1500
Owners80.01-120% AMI1000
OwnersGreater than 120% AMI4100

Single family sales by year

YearMedian priceSales
1996n/an/a
1997n/an/a
1998$68.7K2
1999$67.5K2
2000n/an/a
2001$111K3
2002$98K3
2003$108K1
2004n/an/a
2005$45K1
2006$65K1
2007n/an/a
2008$136K2
2009$206K1
2010$174K1
2011$66K1
2012n/an/a
2013n/an/a
2014n/an/a
2015$152K1

Fiscal

Sep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, latest month$1.54KHalf-cent sales tax distributions by month, Oct 2016 to Sep 2026Oct 2016$2.58K highSep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, fiscal year to date$18.6KFY2026 to Sep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, last 12 months$18.6KSep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, change on the 12 months before-6.7%Sep 2026
State revenue sharing, latest month$1.21KSep 2026
State revenue sharing, fiscal year to date$14.8KFY2026 to Sep 2026
State revenue sharing, last 12 months$14.8KSep 2026
State revenue sharing, change on the 12 months before+1.7%Sep 2026

Florida Office of Economic and Demographic Research, Expenditures and Revenues Reported by Florida's County and Municipal Governments, retrieved 2026-10-01; Florida Department of Revenue, Revenue Confirmation Online, distributions to local governments, retrieved 2026-10-01; Florida Department of Financial Services, LOGERx local government Annual Financial Report data, long-term debt outstanding, retrieved 2026-10-04 | Distributions Annual financial report

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Total revenues$614KFY2024
Revenues, change on the year before-8.3%FY2024
Total expenditures$575KFY2024
Expenditures, change on the year before-23.8%FY2024
Revenues per resident$2.02KFY2024
Long-term debt outstanding at year end$0FY2025

Half-cent sales tax, monthly distributions

As the Department of Revenue's ledger prints them; a blank month is a month with no line.

MonthDistributed
Sep 2026$1.54K
Aug 2026$1.55K
Jul 2026$1.62K
Jun 2026$1.54K
May 2026$1.69K
Apr 2026$1.45K
Mar 2026$1.45K
Feb 2026$1.69K
Jan 2026$1.51K
Dec 2025$1.58K
Nov 2025$1.56K
Oct 2025$1.46K
Sep 2025$1.65K
Aug 2025$1.61K
Jul 2025$1.68K
Jun 2025$1.74K
May 2025$1.79K
Apr 2025$1.66K
Mar 2025$1.48K
Feb 2025$1.75K
Jan 2025$1.67K
Dec 2024$1.72K
Nov 2024$1.58K
Oct 2024$1.65K
Sep 2024$1.54K
Aug 2024$1.56K
Jul 2024$1.6K
Jun 2024$1.65K
May 2024$1.77K
Apr 2024$1.66K
Mar 2024$1.53K
Feb 2024$1.73K
Jan 2024$1.58K
Dec 2023$1.62K
Nov 2023$1.66K
Oct 2023$1.6K

State revenue sharing, monthly distributions

As the Department of Revenue's ledger prints them; a blank month is a month with no line.

MonthDistributed
Sep 2026$1.21K
Aug 2026$1.21K
Jul 2026$1.21K
Jun 2026$1.21K
May 2026$1.21K
Apr 2026$1.21K
Mar 2026$1.21K
Feb 2026$1.21K
Jan 2026$1.21K
Dec 2025$1.3K
Nov 2025$1.3K
Oct 2025$1.3K
Sep 2025$1.34K
Aug 2025$1.34K
Jul 2025$1.34K
Jun 2025$1.14K
May 2025$1.14K
Apr 2025$1.14K
Mar 2025$1.14K
Feb 2025$1.14K
Jan 2025$1.14K
Dec 2024$1.14K
Nov 2024$1.27K
Oct 2024$1.27K
Sep 2024$1.27K
Aug 2024$1.27K
Jul 2024$1.27K
Jun 2024$1.23K
May 2024$1.23K
Apr 2024$1.23K
Mar 2024$1.23K
Feb 2024$1.23K
Jan 2024$1.23K
Dec 2023$1.23K
Nov 2023$1.23K
Oct 2023$1.23K

Long-term debt by fiscal year

Total long-term debt outstanding at fiscal year end, all funds, as the government reported it to the Department of Financial Services in its Annual Financial Report.

Fiscal yearDebt outstandingChange
FY2025$0n/a
FY2024$0n/a
FY2023$0-100.0%
FY2022$7.82K-49.1%
FY2021$15.4K-32.0%
FY2020$22.6K-36.4%
FY2019$35.5K+226.5%
FY2018$10.9K-31.4%
FY2017$15.9K+216.0%
FY2016$5.02K-47.0%
FY2015$9.46K-28.0%
FY2014$13.1K-22.5%
FY2013$17Kn/a

Revenues by category, FY2024

Sum of the fund columns in EDR's workbook for this government.

CategoryFY2024FY2023Change
General Government Taxes$127K$137K-7.1%
Permits, Fees, and Special Assessments$17.5K$17.7K-1.0%
Intergovernmental Revenues$446K$473K-5.8%
Judgments, Fines, and Forfeits$0.2K$0.1K+42.5%
Miscellaneous Revenues$23.1K$41.5K-44.5%
Taxesn/an/an/a
Intergovernmental Revenuen/an/an/a
Other Sourcesn/an/an/a
Charges for Servicesn/an/an/a
Permits and Franchise Feesn/an/an/a

Expenditures by category, FY2024

Sum of the fund columns in EDR's workbook for this government.

CategoryFY2024FY2023Change
General Government Services (Not Court-Related)$99.7K$86.4K+15.4%
Public Safety$427K$448K-4.6%
Transportation$41K$61.6K-33.4%
Culture / Recreation$7.47K$8.77K-14.8%
Economic Environmentn/a$150Kn/a
Physical Environmentn/an/an/a

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