为每个区域填色
颜色深浅代表数值。适合比率、占比和人均指标——这些数字已经消除了面积和人口规模的影响。
打开模板全部地图
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.
Alabama 空白地图，免费下载
全部 67 个counties，线条干净的轮廓图。可打印、可填色、可放进文档——无需注册，也无需署名。
任何用途均可免费使用，包括商用与课堂。由编辑器所用的同一套边界数据生成。
下载 SVGAlabama 地图能看出什么
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.
Alabama 的三种画法
数值是比率时给区域填色，是计数时用大小不同的标记。把这两者用反，是数据地图最常见的误导方式。
什么时候该画 Alabama 地图
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.
什么时候不该画 Alabama 地图
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.
如何制作 Alabama 地图
从表格到发布上线，一步一步来。
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.
从已加载示例数据的 Alabama 模板开始，再换成你自己的数据。
打开模板让 Alabama 数据正确匹配
地点列应该长什么样，以及去哪里找现成能对上的数据。
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.
Alabama 地图上的常见错误
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.
Alabama 地图常见问题
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.
把你的数据放到 Alabama 地图上
上传表格，几分钟内发布一张交互式地图——免费，无需信用卡。