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.
Get help with COVID-19: Apply for a small business grant, get rent or mortgage assistance, and learn more about Milwaukee County’s ongoing response.
The Health and Equity Framework is a visual showcase of how and why the mindset and approach to local government is shifting. With this framework as a guide, Milwaukee County’s strategic plan focuses on addressing the root causes of racial inequities: the policies and practices of our institution.
Addressing the root causes that are contributing to inequities in the community will make sustainable, transformational change to the way our government does business, thereby driving Milwaukee County toward the vision of being the healthiest county in Wisconsin.
Milwaukee County's approach focuses on addressing the root causes of racial inequities: the power structures, policies and practices of our institution.
The Milwaukee County model for change is based on the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute’s Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health initiative.
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