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The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides easy access to summary tables and time series of population, housing, agriculture, and economic data, along with GIS-compatible boundary files, for years from 1790 through the present and for all levels of U.S. census geography, including states, counties, tracts, and blocks.
This guide presents a step-by-step guide on retrieving census data from NHGIS
Look into National Equity Index here
The book of Matthew Desmond about Milwaukee Housing "Evicted :Poverty and Profit in the American City"
Build custom data reports using specific localities and indicators for a variety of socioeconomic factor. Also access specific reports. This initiative is the result of the Centers for Urban Population Health (CUPH).
The Center for Urban Population Health (CUPH) is a non-profit center based in Milwaukee with researchers from UWM, UW-Madison, and Aurora Health combining their work and research to accumulate data and research about health in Milwaukee.
City Health Dashboard: Milwaukee
The Dashboard offers data on over 40 measures of health and drivers of health for over 970 cities across the U.S. – all cities over population 50,000 plus a growing set of smaller places.
Broadstreet is a Public Health data and mapping tool that requires the creation of a free account to use, but can be helpful in understanding pictures of adverse childhood experiences, food systems, and Area depreviation Indices (ADIs), etc.
From the City of Milwaukee Health Department, these reports contain current local data on city of Milwaukee residents, their health status, and the variety of features and conditions which impact their health, healthy development and quality of life.
This page provides access to various kinds of health information for Milwaukee County from the Department of Health Services. Some of these links take you directly to Milwaukee County data. Others ask you to select a geographic location and other variables to shape the information you will see.
Charts providing numbers for all reportable communicable diseases in Milwaukee County for a given timeframe from the City Government Website.
Places: Local Data for Better Health - a web application that provides interactive maps for model-based estimates of 27 chronic disease related measures at county, place, census tract and ZIP code levels. The PLACES project, an expansion of the 500 Cities project, is a collaboration between the CDC, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the CDC Foundation.
Most recent data and reports on incidences of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) instances in the city of Milwaukee.
From the City of MIlwaukee Health Department, this set of data, statistics and reports outline the efforts to track and prevent childhood lead poisoning.
Reports on levels of chemicals, metals, treatment, and other quality reporting measures from the Milwaukee Water department.
HRSA's platform data retrieval platform allows users to locate information like health centers, explore maps and localities, and also create custom data queries. It is useful for national, state, and local data information.
ECO offers numerous health and environment-connected initiatives, such as food access, neighborhood growth, building safety, etc.
