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Michigan County Map Maker

A blank Michigan county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 83 counties across both peninsulas, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Michigan map you can embed anywhere.

Michigan 空白地图,免费下载

全部 83 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。

Michigan 空白轮廓地图,包含全部counties

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。

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Michigan 地图能看出什么

Michigan divides into 83 counties spread across two separated peninsulas, and that split is the first thing a map of the state has to cope with. The Lower Peninsula holds almost all of the population, with the Detroit metro counties — Wayne, Oakland and Macomb — carrying a large share of it in three shapes near the bottom-right corner. The Upper Peninsula is roughly a third of the land area and a tiny fraction of the people, so its counties are large, pale and easy to misread. Nearly everything the state publishes — unemployment, school enrolment, health outcomes, election returns, agricultural output — comes out at county level, which makes a county map the natural unit, as long as you remember that a county in the UP and a county in metro Detroit are not comparable things.

Michigan 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。

分级填色

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。

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每个区域一个按值缩放的标记

每个区域放一个符号,按数值缩放。适合计数与总量;这类数字若用填色,画出来的只会是人口分布图。

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气泡

按比例缩放的圆

轮廓之上按数值缩放的圆。当少数区域占绝对多数、小区域在填色中会被淹没时,效果最好。

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什么时候该画 Michigan 地图

  • Your data is reported by Michigan county

    MDHHS health indicators, labour figures from the Bureau of Labor Market Information, MDE school data and Secretary of State election 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 already account for how many people live in a county, which is what shading a region needs.

  • You want to show the peninsula divide, or the metro-Detroit one

    Michigan's two clearest stories are geographic: Upper Peninsula against Lower, and the three Detroit metro counties against the rest. Both are arguments a reader can see on a map and has to take on trust in a table.

  • You need a blank map to print or fill in

    Classroom exercises, territory planning, colour-by-hand sessions. The free outline above prints cleanly at any size and keeps both peninsulas in one frame.

什么时候不该画 Michigan 地图

  • You are mapping totals rather than rates

    Shade by a raw count and Wayne County wins every time. Anything that grows simply because more people live there belongs on a sized symbol or bubble, not a shade.

  • Your unit is a city, a township or a school district

    Michigan has well over a thousand townships and hundreds of school districts, and they do not stack neatly inside county lines. Mapping them onto counties will put your numbers in the wrong place.

  • Only the Lower Peninsula has data

    A map where the entire UP is grey reads as missing data whatever the caption says. If coverage stops at the Mackinac Bridge, say so in the title or drop to the region that is actually covered.

  • The comparison is with other states

    If the point is how Michigan sits against Ohio and Wisconsin, use the US county map or a states map so the reader can see across the border rather than guessing at it.

如何制作 Michigan 地图

从表格到发布上线,一步一步来。

01

Download the blank map, or start from the template

The free outline above is a plain SVG of all 83 counties — print it, or drop it into a document. To build with data, open the PlotSet Michigan (counties) template, which comes with sample data already bound.

02

Prepare a county column and a value column

One row per county: the five-digit FIPS code or the county name in the first column, your number in the second. Michigan FIPS codes all begin 26.

03

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.

04

Pick the style that fits the measure

Shade the counties for a rate, or switch to symbols or bubbles for a count. Symbols are particularly useful in Michigan, because they stop the empty northern counties from dominating the picture by sheer area.

05

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.

06

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 Michigan 模板开始,再换成你自己的数据。

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让 Michigan 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。

All 83 counties, both peninsulas

68 in the Lower Peninsula and 15 in the Upper. The template draws them in one frame at their true relative positions, so the Straits of Mackinac gap is real rather than a rendering error.

The template spells the saints out in full

Saint Clair and Saint Joseph, not St. Clair and St. Joseph. Federal and state tables usually use the abbreviated form, so a name join will silently drop both counties. Joining on FIPS avoids it entirely.

Michigan FIPS codes start at 26

26001 is Alcona, 26165 is Wexford. Store the column as text so the codes keep their shape, and note that the county part is odd-numbered rather than sequential.

Where to get Michigan county data

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, the Bureau of Labor Market Information, the Michigan Department of Education and the Secretary of State all publish county tables, as does the Census Bureau's ACS.

Michigan 地图上的常见错误

Shading counts instead of rates

It produces a population map of south-east Michigan every time. Use a sized symbol for counts and keep shading for rates and shares.

Letting the Upper Peninsula set the impression

The UP is around a third of Michigan's land and a small fraction of its people, so it takes up a third of the map whatever the data says. A cartogram or a sized symbol is fairer when the story is about people.

Joining on names without checking the saints

Saint Clair, Saint Joseph and Grand Traverse are the usual failures, and a mismatch leaves a blank county rather than an error message. Join on FIPS where you can.

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.

Michigan 地图常见问题

Yes. The outline above is a free SVG of all 83 Michigan 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 Michigan 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。