Colorer chaque région
L'intensité de la couleur porte la valeur. Le bon choix pour les taux, les parts et les données par habitant, déjà ajustés à la taille ou à la population.
Ouvrir le modèleToutes les cartes
Alabama County Map Maker
A blank Alabama county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 67 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Alabama map you can embed anywhere.
Fond de carte Alabama vierge, à télécharger gratuitement
Les 67 counties, en tracé net. Imprimez-le, coloriez-le ou insérez-le dans un document — sans compte et sans attribution.
Libre pour tout usage, y compris commercial et scolaire. Généré à partir des mêmes contours que l'éditeur.
Télécharger le SVGCe que montre une carte Alabama
Alabama divides into 67 counties, and three things shape almost every map drawn on them. Around eight counties hold roughly half the state's population — Jefferson around Birmingham, Madison around Huntsville, Mobile, Baldwin on the coast, Montgomery, Shelby, Tuscaloosa and Lee — and they are not clustered together. Across the middle and south of the state runs the Black Belt, a band named for its dark prairie soil and now the state's poorest, most rural and most heavily Black group of counties; it shows up on health, income, broadband and turnout maps alike. The north-east is Appalachian foothill country with its own pattern again. A statewide average for Alabama tends to sit between those regions rather than describe any of them, which is the argument for mapping the counties in the first place.
Trois façons de dessiner Alabama
Colorez les régions pour un taux, dimensionnez un marqueur pour un effectif. Inverser les deux est la façon la plus courante de tromper le lecteur.
Un marqueur dimensionné par région
Un symbole par région, mis à l'échelle selon la valeur. À utiliser pour les effectifs et les totaux, là où colorer la surface ne ferait que redessiner la carte de la population.
Ouvrir le modèleCercles proportionnels
Des cercles dimensionnés par la valeur, posés sur le tracé. Efficace quand quelques régions dominent et que les petites disparaîtraient dans un aplat.
Ouvrir le modèleQuand cartographier Alabama
Your data is reported by Alabama county
Alabama Department of Public Health indicators, Department of Labor employment figures, State Department of Education enrolment and report-card data, and Secretary of State election returns are all published by county.
You are showing a rate or a share
Uninsured rate, broadband subscription share, share of the vote, median household income. A rate is already adjusted for population, which is exactly what shading a region needs.
The Black Belt is part of the story
It is a geographic band, so it is invisible in a ranked list and unmistakable on a map. Anything measuring rural access, health outcomes or income in Alabama will show it.
You need a blank map to print or fill in
Classroom exercises, county-by-county planning sessions, colour-by-hand worksheets. The free outline above prints cleanly at any size.
Quand éviter la carte Alabama
You are mapping totals rather than rates
Shade by a raw count and Jefferson County wins every time — it holds around one in eight Alabamians. Use symbols or bubbles sized by the count instead.
Your unit is a city or a school system
Alabama runs city school systems alongside the 67 county systems, and municipalities like Birmingham and Huntsville spill across county lines. Flattening either onto counties misplaces the thing you are describing.
Only a few counties have data
Sixty grey shapes around a dozen coloured ones is a worse bar chart. If coverage is patchy, rank the counties you actually have.
The comparison is with other states
If the point is how Alabama sits against Mississippi, Georgia or the South as a whole, use the US county map so the reader can see across the state line.
Comment créer une carte Alabama
Du tableur à la carte publiée, étape par étape.
Download the blank map, or start from the template
The free outline above is a plain SVG of all 67 counties — print it, or drop it into a document. To build with data, open the PlotSet Alabama (counties) template, which loads with sample data already bound.
Prepare a county column and a value column
One row per county: the county name or its five-digit FIPS code in the first column, your number in the second. Alabama FIPS codes all begin 01.
Upload or connect your data
Import a CSV or Excel file, paste from a spreadsheet, or connect a Google Sheet so the map can be refreshed when the source updates.
Pick the style that fits the measure
Shade the counties for a rate, or switch to symbols or bubbles for a count. Same geography, same data, different encoding.
Choose a colour scale on purpose
Sequential for a low-to-high measure, diverging only when a real midpoint exists — the state average, zero change, a 50 per cent line. Four to six steps read more precisely than a smooth gradient.
Publish, embed or export
Publish for a live interactive map with a tooltip on every county, or export a PNG, SVG or PDF for a report or a deck.
Partez du modèle Alabama avec ses données d'exemple, puis remplacez-les par les vôtres.
Ouvrir le modèleFaire correspondre vos données Alabama
À quoi doit ressembler la colonne des lieux, et où trouver des données déjà compatibles.
Alabama FIPS codes start with a zero
The state code is 01, so every county code has a leading zero: 01001 is Autauga, 01133 is Winston. Store the column as text before you open the file, because a spreadsheet will read 01001 as the number 1001 and every county will then fail to join.
Two counties are spelled more than one way
The Census writes DeKalb and St. Clair; the boundaries behind this map write De Kalb and Saint Clair. Both are the same county, and a name join will silently drop whichever form your file does not use. Joining on FIPS avoids the question entirely.
Mobile the county is not Mobile the city
The same is true of Montgomery, Birmingham inside Jefferson County, and Huntsville, which sits mostly in Madison but reaches into Limestone and Morgan. City-level figures do not belong on a county map without being restated.
Where to get Alabama county data
The Alabama Department of Public Health, the Department of Labor, the State Department of Education and the Secretary of State all publish county tables, as does the Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
Erreurs fréquentes sur une carte Alabama
Shading counts instead of rates
It produces a population map every time. Anything that grows simply because more people live there should be a sized symbol, not a shade.
Letting Excel eat the leading zero
This is the single most common broken Alabama map. 01001 arrives as 1001, the join finds nothing, and the map renders blank rather than throwing an error. Import the FIPS column as text.
Treating the Black Belt as a fixed list of counties
Different agencies draw it differently — some use twelve counties, some more than twenty. If you shade a region rather than a measure, say which definition you used.
Ignoring how uneven the counties are
Greene County has fewer than 8,000 residents and Jefferson has over 650,000, while Baldwin is the largest county on the page by area. Small denominators make rates jump around; note it in the caption.
Using a rainbow colour scale
A sequence of hues has no natural order, so readers cannot tell high from low without checking the legend on every county. Use one hue, light to dark.
Questions sur la carte Alabama
Yes. The outline above is a free SVG of all 67 Alabama counties — right-click to save it, print it, or drop it into a worksheet or document. No account needed.
Placez vos données sur la carte Alabama
Importez un tableur et publiez une carte interactive en quelques minutes — gratuit, sans carte bancaire.