Healthy People Wood County

A partnership of residents, hospitals, nonprofits, businesses, public health officials, and schools all aligning our energy to fight complex health problems together. Alone none of us can overcome the challenges our communities face.  Together we can achieve progress.

Wood County, Wisconsin is home to 74,207 people across 809 square miles at the exact geographic center of Wisconsin. Our county is more rural than the state overall: 37% live in rural areas and 63% in cities like our county seat of Wisconsin Rapids. Most of the nation's cranberries come from Wisconsin, and Wood County boasts the most acres.

Though 94% of our county identifies as White, we are home to strong Amish, Hispanic, Hmong, and Native American communities.  Wood County is part of treaty land that has been claimed historically by multiple tribes including the Ho-Chunk, Ojibwe, and Menominee Nations.  Much of the land was taken through federal government treaties. 

Wood County residents have a lower income and education than the state average, with 9.4% of our residents living in poverty.