Home age in ZIP 54603, La Crosse, WI: median built 1965

Home age is not roof age, and the Census does not record replacements. ZIP 54603 in La Crosse, WI: median home built 1965; 91.3% of homes (6,543) are older than 25 years and 2.7% (195) were built since 2010, out of 7,168 homes.

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2019 to 2023 (5-year estimates), retrieved October 9, 2026. Area = Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area 54603.

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Share of homes in ZIP 54603 by decade builtColumns from the pre-1940 decade on the left to 2020 and later on the right. pre-1940 28.3 percent; 1940s 6.2 percent; 1950s 10.8 percent; 1960s 9.3 percent; 1970s 15.7 percent; 1980s 11.5 percent; 1990s 9.6 percent; 2000s 6 percent; 2010s 2.2 percent; 2020+ 0.5 percentpre-1940: 2,025 homes, 28.3%28.3%pre-1940La Crosse County: 16.4%1940s: 442 homes, 6.2%6.2%1940sLa Crosse County: 4.8%1950s: 772 homes, 10.8%10.8%1950sLa Crosse County: 9.3%1960s: 667 homes, 9.3%9.3%1960sLa Crosse County: 7.9%1970s: 1,128 homes, 15.7%15.7%1970sLa Crosse County: 15.1%1980s: 821 homes, 11.5%11.5%1980sLa Crosse County: 9.9%1990s: 688 homes, 9.6%9.6%1990sLa Crosse County: 15.1%2000s: 430 homes, 6.0%6%2000sLa Crosse County: 11.4%2010s: 156 homes, 2.2%2.2%2010sLa Crosse County: 9.4%2020+: 39 homes, 0.5%0.5%2020+La Crosse County: 0.7%Built 1999 or earlier: 91.3% of homes (6,543)ZIP 54603, built before 2000built 2000 or laterLa Crosse County

Share of the 7,168 housing units in the ZIP, by decade built. The red marks are La Crosse County. This counts houses, not roofs: a roof is replaced several times in the life of a house, and no federal survey records when.

ZIP 54603 next to La Crosse and La Crosse County

IndicatorZIP 54603La CrosseLa Crosse CountyRank among 1 ZIPs of La Crosse on this site
Housing units7,16824,27453,234
Median year built196519661978
Built before 198070.2%66.9%53.5%
Built before 200091.3%no data78.5%
Built since 20102.7%no data10.2%
Owner-occupied homes51%46.1%62.5%
Single-family units61.8%54.8%no data
Median home value$175,500 (+/- $10,743)$196,600$243,200
Median household income$49,693 (+/- $6,835)$53,803no data

City figures are for the Census place, county figures for the county; “no data” means the Census file does not publish that figure. Value and income are survey estimates, the plus-or-minus is the 90% margin of error.

Every decade in ZIP 54603

BuiltShare of La Crosse CountyShare of ZIPHomes in ZIP 54603
2020+0.7%0.5%39
2010s9.4%2.2%156
2000s11.4%6.0%430
1990s15.1%9.6%688
1980s9.9%11.5%821
1970s15.1%15.7%1,128
1960s7.9%9.3%667
1950s9.3%10.8%772
1940s4.8%6.2%442
pre-194016.4%28.3%2,025

Counts are Census estimates of housing units by year built (table B25034). If a roof had never been replaced, it would be 3 to 6 years old on a house from the 2020s, 17 to 26 on one from the 2000s, 37 to 46 on one from the 1980s and 87 or more on one from before 1940. Most older houses have had at least one replacement, and the Census does not record when.

What the numbers say about ZIP 54603

ZIP 54603 has 7,168 housing units: 6,543 (91.3%) were built before 2000, 195 (2.7%) in 2010 or later, and 2,025 (28.3%) before 1940, its largest era. The median year built is 1965 (La Crosse: 1966), so 1 years older than the city.

Housing mix and money, from the same survey: 51% of occupied homes are owner-occupied; 61.8% of units are single-family houses; the median owner-occupied home is valued at $175,500, give or take $10,743; median household income is $49,693, give or take $6,835; the ZIP holds 29.5% of the housing units the Census counts in La Crosse, 7,168 of them. These are survey estimates with margins of error, and for a small ZIP the margin can be wide.

Reading this for roofs, carefully: the Census records when a house was built, never when its roof was last replaced. If every roof were still the one installed with its house, 5,855 units (81.7%, built before 1990) would be past the 30-year top of the usual asphalt-shingle range, 688 (9.6%, the 1990s) would mostly sit past it, 430 (6%, the 2000s) would mostly be inside the 20 to 30 year window and 195 (2.7%, 2010 onward) would be younger than it. Most older roofs have been replaced, so treat these as the pool of houses where an old roof is possible, not as a count of old roofs.

Roof age calculator for ZIP 54603

Enter the year your house was built, and the year the roof was last replaced if you know it. It starts at the median year built for this ZIP. The share of neighbours’ homes older than yours comes from this ZIP’s own decade counts.

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–of homes in ZIP 54603 are older
–vs. the ZIP median year built

Material ranges are general planning figures (the same ones as on our roof-age page), not warranties. Sun, storms, attic ventilation and installation quality move them. The decade shares assume homes were built evenly within each decade. This is not an inspection: a roofer on the roof decides.

Map: ZIP 54603 among La Crosse’s ZIP areas

Map of ZIP 54603 and nearby ZIP areas, shaded by the share of homes built before 2000ZIP 54603: 7,168 homes, 91.3% built before 2000, median year 196554603
  • under 20% built before 2000
  • 40 to 60%
  • 80% or more
  • Dot size = housing units. Red ring = ZIP 54603. Click a dot to open that ZIP.

Storm backdrop: La Crosse County

A ZIP is too small for its own hail record, so this is the county. FEMA’s National Risk Index rates La Crosse County Relatively Low overall (80.5 of 100), Relatively High for hail (95.1), Relatively Moderate for strong wind (76.9) and Relatively Moderate for tornado (84.6). NOAA logged 77 hail reports in the county, on 16 days with hail of 1 inch or more in the full years 2014 to 2025.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 version, county level. This product uses FEMA’s National Risk Index data but is not endorsed by FEMA.

Where to go from here

Other roofing cities near ZIP 54603: Rochester, MN (62 miles), Eau Claire, WI (67 miles), Dubuque, IA (98 miles).

Questions

How old are the homes in ZIP 54603?

Of the 7,168 housing units, 5,034 (70.2%) were built before 1980, 6,543 (91.3%) before 2000 and 195 (2.7%) from 2010 on (Census ACS 2019 to 2023, survey estimate).

Does a house's age tell me how old its roof is in 54603?

No. ACS records the year the structure was built, not the year the roof was last replaced. With 5,034 units built before 1980 in this ZIP, many roofs are replacements rather than originals. Ask the seller for permit records or have a roofer inspect the roof.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2019 to 2023, tables B25034 (year structure built), B25035, B25003, B25024, B25077 and B19013, ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; ZIP-to-city assignment from the Census 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file (a ZIP is assigned to a city when more than half of its land area lies inside it). A ZCTA is not a USPS ZIP code: it approximates one and can differ at the edges. Public domain. The 12 ZIP-specific figures above differ from ZIP to ZIP.

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