UW Extension’s Community Development Institute developed this comprehensive collection of data sources that are essential for communities to plan broadband implementations.

The Census of Agriculture Data Dashboard is a quick source of state-level data from 2012, 2017, or 2022. The data topics are high-level and include data about land in farms and producer demographics such as age, gender, and race/ethnicity.

The Census of Agriculture Viewer, developed by UW-Extension, can be used to explore data from the USDA Census of Agriculture between 2022 and 2002. The data is organized into 4 tabs: Farms, Demographics, Crops and practices, and Livestock.

Leveraging IRS data and information scraped from organization websites, this resource from Johns Hopkins University illustrates the landscape of civic opportunity by county.

The Center on Rural Innovation (CORI) Economic Development tool allows users to create a custom dashboard of indicators focused on the strengths and weaknesses of the selected area’s economy.

County Business Patterns, from the U.S. Census, provides economic data by industry and number of employees. The County-level data includes the number of establishments by NAICS code, number of employees by sector, and annual payroll by sector.

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.

This list of web map applications from the WI Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection provides access to data on agricultural land-use designations and regulatory boundaries, allowing for highly localized technical assistance.

The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development data dashboards provide comprehensive, localized economic and workforce data.

Statewide visualizations and maps can be generated on this site to examine topics such as businesses, industries, the labor force, unemployment, wages, and several others.

The Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool (RAPT) allows users to combine layers of community resilience indicators, infrastructure locations and hazard data. Users can visualize community resilience challenges to inform decisions around preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery.

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.

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.

This resource is instrumental in understanding labor market dynamics. LEHD data consists of job mobility, commuting characteristics, and quarterly workforce indicator datasets.

The Migration Data Hub provides comprehensive profiles and interactive maps detailing the demographics, geographic distribution, and socioeconomic characteristics of immigrant populations mostly at the state level, but some data is available at the county, and local levels.

The Census Bureau’s OnTheMap application can be used to answer fundamental questions about the relationship between where people live and where they work.

OpenStreetMap is a free and open geographic database of the built environment maintained and updated by a community of professionals and enthusiasts.

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.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages is a highly reliable near-census of all jobs covered by unemployment insurance. The QCEW data is useful for determining county employment trends, identifying emerging job needs, targeting skills gaps, among other uses.

The Social Explorer, available with a UW NetID login, allows the user to access and map an extensive list of demographic, socio-economic, health, environmental, business, and election data sets.

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.

This resource shows production by county of specialty crops in categories such as fruits, tree nuts, novel oilseeds, and small grains, and the infrastructure needed to move crops from fields to consumers.

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.

The U.S. Census’ QuickFacts site provides a customizable table of common demographic and socio-economic statistics for the U.S., individual States and Counties, or cities and towns with populations of more than 5,000 people.