Census Reporter is a dashboard for visualizing Census data from the most current American Community Survey (ACS). Census geographies including State, County, and City can be selected using an interactive map.
This website presents rankings by County across the U.S. of various health related topics in two categories: health factors, and health outcomes.
The DHS Open Data Portal provides an extensive list of data related to health and behavior including: birth and death rates, life expectancy, illness, insurance, public health, lead, mental health, and substance use.
Disability Statistics is a state-level database designed to provide policy makers, advocates, journalists, and the public with access to demographic and socio-economic statistics on the non-institutionalized population of the U.S. with disabilities.
EJScreen, the EPA’s Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool is designed to highlight places that may have more exposure to health-impacting environmental risks and under-resourced or more vulnerable populations.
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.
APL’s GetFacts is a tool for generating demographic profiles of Wisconsin Counties, County Subdivisions, or the State with a focus on population trends, health, housing, race and ethnicity, economics, or civil rights.
APL’s Hmong Chartbook is the most detailed information source available in regard to the Hmong/HMoob population of Wisconsin.
The Kids Count Data Center provides a convenient source of DHS, DPI, U.S. Census, and other data. Tables or maps for many socio-economic indicators that affect the lives of children and adults are available.
Data Interactives is a resource developed by UCLA to provide information about LGBT people in the U.S.
The ACS-ED interactive mapping tool allows the user to visualize socio-economic and demographic variables from the U.S. Census ACS by school district.
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 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.
APL’s Wisconsin Food Security Project provides data to help identify food security strengths, risk factors, and gaps via socio-economic factors.
APL’s Wisconsin Risk and Reach Project assesses potential gaps between publicly funded programs and community risks especially as they relate to children and families.
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.
The United Way developed the ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) metric to examine the group of households earning more than the Federal Poverty Level, but not enough to afford the essentials for survival in the communities in which they reside.
