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.
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Wisconsin County Map Maker
A blank Wisconsin county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 72 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Wisconsin map you can embed anywhere.
Fond de carte Wisconsin vierge, à télécharger gratuitement
Les 72 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 Wisconsin
Wisconsin divides into 72 counties, and almost every figure the state publishes — unemployment, dairy production, turnout, school enrolment, health outcomes — is released at that level. It is a good geography to map: the counties are similar enough in size that no single one swallows the picture, and the state's real internal divisions show up clearly at county resolution. The Milwaukee and Madison metros, the Fox Valley corridor, the dairy counties of the west and the sparse forested north each read as their own region on a county map, and none of them is visible in a single statewide number.
Trois façons de dessiner Wisconsin
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.
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Your data is reported by Wisconsin county
DHS health indicators, DWD labour figures, DPI school data, DATCP agricultural statistics and Wisconsin Elections Commission returns are all published by county.
You are showing a rate or a share
Unemployment rate, vaccination share, share of votes, median household income. Rates are already adjusted for population, which is what shading a region needs.
You want to show a north–south or urban–rural split
Wisconsin's clearest patterns are geographic. A county map makes the divide between the metro southeast and the northern counties an argument the reader can see rather than a claim they have to accept.
You need a blank map to print or fill in
Classroom exercises, planning workshops, colour-by-hand sessions. The free outline above prints cleanly at any size.
Quand éviter la carte Wisconsin
You are mapping totals rather than rates
Shade by a raw count and Milwaukee County wins every time — it holds roughly a sixth of the state's population in one of its smaller shapes. Use symbols or bubbles sized by the count instead.
Your unit is a city or a school district
Wisconsin's municipalities and school districts cross county lines freely. Mapping them onto counties will misplace the thing you are describing.
Only a few counties have data
A map with sixty grey shapes and twelve coloured ones is a worse bar chart. If coverage is patchy, rank the counties you do have.
The comparison is with other states
If the point is how Wisconsin sits against its neighbours, use the US states map or the full US county map so the reader can see across the border.
Comment créer une carte Wisconsin
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 72 counties — print it, or drop it into a document. To build with data, open the PlotSet Wisconsin (counties) template, which comes 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. FIPS codes for Wisconsin all begin 55.
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 Wisconsin avec ses données d'exemple, puis remplacez-les par les vôtres.
Ouvrir le modèleFaire correspondre vos données Wisconsin
À quoi doit ressembler la colonne des lieux, et où trouver des données déjà compatibles.
All 72 counties, spelled as the state spells them
Watch the ones that trip up a join: Fond du Lac, Eau Claire, La Crosse, St. Croix, Green and Green Lake, Marinette and Menominee. Matching on FIPS avoids every one of these.
Wisconsin FIPS codes start at 55
55001 is Adams, 55141 is Wood. Store the column as text so the codes keep their shape, and remember the county part is odd-numbered, not sequential.
Milwaukee County is not Milwaukee
The city sits inside the county along with eighteen other municipalities. If your figure is city-level, it does not belong on a county map.
Where to get Wisconsin county data
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services, the Department of Workforce Development, the Department of Public Instruction and the Wisconsin Elections Commission all publish county tables, as does the Census Bureau's ACS.
Erreurs fréquentes sur une carte Wisconsin
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.
Joining on names without checking spelling
Fond du Lac and Fond Du Lac are different strings, and a silent mismatch leaves a blank county rather than an error. Join on FIPS where you can.
Ignoring the population imbalance
Milwaukee and Dane counties hold a quarter of the state between them in two small shapes, while the largest counties by area are in the sparsely populated north. 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 Wisconsin
Yes. The outline above is a free SVG of all 72 Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin
Importez un tableur et publiez une carte interactive en quelques minutes — gratuit, sans carte bancaire.