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.
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Mortality data tell us the average number of years of life a person is expected live. This number can vary depending on one’s race, ethnicity, sex and other factors. When there are drastic differences in the average age of death between groups, it is a sign there are inequities in health. This is a very long-term health outcome and improving this number may take years after a program of policy is implemented to see a positive effect.
Average age of death has been used as a key metric in multiple health frameworks for years. Unfortunately, the average age of death for Black residents of Milwaukee County has been at least 10 years or more lower than White residents for over a decade. As of 2020, White residents’ average age of death was 74.7 years compared to 62.0 for Black residents, a gap of 12.7 years. This metric represents perhaps the starkest indicator of the social and health inequities that exist in our county. The reduction of this gap is one of the key performance targets for the Office of the County Executive.
Since making history as the first government in the nation to declare racism a public health crisis in 2019, Milwaukee County has committed to reevaluating all of its services to align to a new strategic plan. The vision of this plan is: By achieving racial equity, Milwaukee is the healthiest county in Wisconsin. To this end, the County is realigning its services – what it does, where it does it and how it does it – to meet the needs of Milwaukee County’s residents most impacted by health disparities.
Milwaukee County Courthouse 901 N. 9th St., Room 308 Milwaukee, WI 53233
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