MKE Indicators
Data You Can Use, in collaboration with the Community Development Alliance, is pleased to release this 2026 update of the indicator maps for Milwaukee’s neighborhoods. These indicators are intended to help community members, planners, policy makers, and neighborhood organizations to plan, document and explore key pieces of information about their neighborhoods.The MKE indicators compliment our Neighborhood Portraits by providing additional variables and a city-wide view of important topics.
Explore data across five categories: Equitable Housing, Equity & Access, Population, Health, and Market Value!
In this new release, we have updated 21 indicators with the most recent data from the American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates 2020 – 2024 release, the CDC PLACES 2023 datasets, and the Milwaukee Open Data Portal. Additionally, a new data source was used for the Access to Quality Schools indicator: City Forward Collective’s High-Quality Metric that uses the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s 2024-25 School Report Card data. In addition to updated data, in this launch, several of the indicators were expanded to feature data for the entirety of Milwaukee County, with exceptions for indicators that use data from the City of Milwaukee’s Open Data Portal. Now, users can view Town and Village boundaries in addition to neighborhood boundaries for these indicators.
Data for these indicators were drawn from a variety of sources, including the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, the CDC’s PLACES Health data, the City of Milwaukee, and others. Due to this, the data represented are not all from the same year. Furthermore, while most indicators are displayed at the census tract level, some are displayed at different geographies, such as block groups.
You can learn more about the data here. The downloadable datasets will be released shortly!
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