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  • La Crosse County's population grew by 1.23% to 108,433 from 1990 - 2000.
  • The Jackson Correctional Institution, which opened in 1996, had 960 male inmates when the census was taken.
  • Today, more than half the residents in six Vernon County communities report Norwegian blood: the town of Coon, 62%; Westby, 61%; Coon Valley, 56%; the town of Christiana, 54%; the town of Jefferson, 53%; and the town of Franklin, 51%.
  • According to Census 2000 figures, there were 209 Hispanics in Norwalk out of a population of 653 people.
  • In increasing numbers, people of color, be they African-American, like Osborn, Hispanic or other ethnic heritage, are moving into Houston County, according to the most recent census numbers.
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    Onalaska, Holmen lead La Crosse County with a decade of growth

    ONALASKA, Wis. - When Ray Prieur and Harriet Schuppel were growing up in the 1930s and '40s, the days when Onalaska and La Crosse's borders would intertwine were still a long way off. Nobody would have called Onalaska a suburb back then.