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Dry cleaners in La Crosse County, WI
How La Crosse County, WI compares with other counties and the U.S. for dry cleaners: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 1.
- Listings
- 1
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 6
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $100.5M
- On clothing, shoes and related services · $1,951 a household
- Spending per listing
- $100.5M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 0.2
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 121,339
- +0.3% since 2020
See the dry cleaners around any address in La Crosse County
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 1 dry cleaner in La Crosse County. That is 0.2 per 10,000 households.
At $1,951 per household (5% below the U.S. average), households in La Crosse County spend about $100.5M a year on clothing, shoes and related services. That works out to $100.5M per shop. That spending covers all clothing, shoes and related services, which dry cleaners share with other businesses in the trade.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as dry cleaning and laundry services in La Crosse County was 6 in 2023. That is one for every 8,583 households, against one for every 8,177 across the U.S.
Population estimates show La Crosse County grew 0.3% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 1 dry cleaner on map listings, La Crosse County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How La Crosse County compares
The same measures for Wisconsin and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all clothing, shoes and related services by the dry cleaners counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | La Crosse County | Wisconsin | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.3 |
| Spending per listing | $100.5M | $26.7M | $15.7M |
| Households per official establishment | 8,583 | 22,138 | 8,177 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −34.1% | −18.7% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.3% | +1.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on clothing, shoes and related services | $1,951 | $2,003 | $2,055 |
| Median household income | $73,013 | $77,485 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 68 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 5 → 6
- Employees, 2023
- 45
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 10 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 6The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as dry cleaning and laundry services in La Crosse County, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in La Crosse County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 121,339+0.3% since 2020
- Households
- 51,497
- Median age
- 39.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 62%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 452 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 267
- Median household income
- $73,013+26.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $97,214
- Median home value
- $257,000
- Jobs located here
- 72,448
- Daytime population
- 134,687Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
Looking at a specific site in La Crosse County?
These figures cover the whole county. A site report draws rings around one address and counts what’s inside them: households, spending, jobs, and the dry cleaners on map listings by name and distance.
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Top counties in Wisconsin
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Dane County, WI | 80 | 24 | 1.0 | $23.1M | +4.9% | #20 of 507 |
| 2Brown County, WI | 76 | 8 | 0.7 | $27.8M | +2.6% | #33 of 507 |
| 3Outagamie County, WI | 66 | 7 | 0.9 | $23.3M | +2.6% | #89 of 507 |
| 4Racine County, WI | 63 | 7 | 0.9 | $22.9M | +0.4% | #129 of 507 |
| 5Waukesha County, WI | 62 | 22 | 1.3 | $18.3M | +2.4% | #138 of 507 |
| 6Winnebago County, WI | 58 | 6 | 0.8 | $23.4M | +1.4% | #178 of 507 |
| 7Walworth County, WI | 54 | 5 | 1.2 | $17.9M | +0.8% | #224 of 507 |
| 8Marathon County, WI | 50 | 6 | 1.0 | $19M | +1.0% | #258 of 507 |
| 9Milwaukee County, WI | 48 | 46 | 1.2 | $15.9M | −1.5% | #282 of 507 |
| La Crosse County, WI | Not scored | 1 | 0.2 | $100.5M | +0.3% |
Other business types in La Crosse County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
- Clothing, shoes and laundry43
- Clothing and shoe stores44
- Laundromats44
- Dry cleaners
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many dry cleaners are in La Crosse County, WI?
There is 1 dry cleaner on map listings in La Crosse County as of September 2026. The listings count dry cleaners. Official counts show 6 businesses with payroll classed as dry cleaning and laundry services in 2023.
How much do households in La Crosse County, WI spend on clothing, shoes and related services?
About $100.5M a year, or $1,951 per household. That is 5% below the U.S. average (an index of 95, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 dry cleaner on map listings, it comes to $100.5M per shop. The spending figure covers all clothing, shoes and related services, not only dry cleaners. It is estimated from the incomes of the 51,497 households in La Crosse County and national spending patterns by income.
How does La Crosse County, WI compare with the U.S. for dry cleaners?
La Crosse County has 1 dry cleaner on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the national ratio of dry cleaners to household spending, La Crosse County would have about 6, against 1 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 8,583 households, against one for every 8,177 across the U.S.
How fast is La Crosse County, WI growing?
Population estimates put La Crosse County at 121,339 people in 2025, up 0.3% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 51,497 households. The median household income in La Crosse County is $73,013 a year, 10% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 26.1% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. La Crosse County has no market score for dry cleaners: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 1.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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