Milwaukee County’s goal is to enrich your life by providing essential services that meet your needs and those of your family, neighbors, co-workers and friends.
We enhance the quality of life in Milwaukee County through great public service.
Milwaukee County is home to over 950,000 people living in one of 19 communities, which range in size from the City of Milwaukee, with 595,000 residents, to the Village of River Hills, with roughly 1,600 residents.
Still a manufacturing stronghold, the region features 16 Fortune 1000 companies and thousands of others in the financial services, medical device, hospitality and retailing industries.
Find information about things to do and happenings in Milwaukee County.
Milwaukee County’s Complete Communities Transportation Planning Project has an ambitious goal of zero fatalities and serious injuries on all roadways in Milwaukee County by 2037. This means that the countywide Safe Streets Action Plan and each municipality’s Action Plan will incorporate Vision Zero principles, a Safe Systems Approach solutions to slow automobile traffic speeds. Together, along with other important aspects of Vision Zero like Driver Assistance Systems, Alcohol Detection Systems, Modal Shift and improved Emergency Response, we can save more lives on Milwaukee County roadways every year. Learn more at Vision Zero Network.
Read the Resolution that commits Milwaukee County to achieving Vision Zero by 2037 as approved by the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors on July 31st, 2024
and signed into law by Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley on August 29th, 2024.
Donna Brown-Martin, Director 10320 W. Watertown Plank Rd., 2nd Floor Wauwatosa, WI 53226 (414) 257-5992