Vulnerability index for WI from the SVI interactive map

Social Vulnerability Interactive Map

The Social Vulnerability Interactive (SVI) Map, a product of the CDC Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, displays vulnerability indices for four categories: socioeconomic status, household characteristics, racial and ethnic minority status, and housing type and transportation.

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An example of the data available on the US Census County Profiles site

US Census County Profiles

The U.S. Census County Profiles offer a comprehensive and current socio-economic picture of each county in Wisconsin from economic, employment, and housing data to health, education, and demographics.

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Screenshot of a typical data visualization from DataUSA

DataUSA

DataUSA is a public-private partnership leveraging U.S. Census and other public data using a flexible dashboard generator for geographies including state, county, and municipality, and Tribal area. Topics include employment, industry, education, income, housing, transportation, poverty, and health.

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An example data comparison from Headwaters data profiles

Headwaters Data Profiles

Headwaters Economics is a nonprofit research group focusing on community development and land management. Offered here are a number of tools designed to assess various types of risk at the county or community level.

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Ancestry map from the Applied Population Lab

Applied Population Lab Resources

The UW-Madison Applied Population Lab offers a tremendous breadth of interactive demographic and socio-economic tools, analyses, and reports. Some of these are detailed in this Data Inventory, but APL provides many more than can be listed here.

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An example map from the Financial Security Indicators tool.

Financial Security Indicators

This resource, available only to logged-in wisc.edu users, provides a comprehensive suite of financial well-being indicators for Wisconsin, integrating data on assets, debt, employment, housing, income, and poverty from diverse sources.

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Screenshot from the US Census My Tribal Area Tool

My Tribal Area

Finding data collected from Tribal Nation geographies can be challenging. This resource allows users to view statistics from the most current ACS aggregated and tabulated specifically to match the boundaries of the designated Tribal Geographies in Wisconsin.

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Equitable Program Development Dashboard

Equitable Program Development Dashboard

The EPD maps five categories of socioeconomic and demographic Census data at the County, County Subdivision, Tract, and Block Group levels, and includes a number of community assets for additional local context.

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An example of a map generated by StatsAmerica

StatsAmerica

StatsAmerica is an extensive and up-to-date collection of data and indices related to economic and community development. The site is also a handy source of Census and other federal data at the County, Place, or MSA level.

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Screenshot of PolicyMap with example data for Counties in Wisconsin.

PolicyMap

PolicyMap makes one of the most extensive lists of demographic and socio-economic variables accessible in one place—at nearly every level of geography imaginable. Current Census data exists alongside historical data of various types.

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