Healthy People Wood County

Blue announcement icon.

Are YOU a teen interested in sharing your voice to create change?

Become a PATCH Teen Consultant to share your insights on health and healthcare practices, programs, and policies to improve adolescent health and well-being.

Providers and Teens Communicating for Health (PATCH) logo

Check out IMPACT’s 2024 Year in Review

Explore the key highlights and accomplishments IMPACT made over the last year.

A blue pamphlet featuring the IMPACT logo in the center, highlighting achievements from 2024.

Explore the Wood County 2025-2027 Community Health Improvement Plan!

Check out our plan to building a healthier future!

Building a Healthier Future

We heard from you… these are the top health priorities in Wood County:

Substance Use

Built Environment

  • Housing

  • Transportation

Access to Care

  • Oral health

  • Health services

Financial Security

  • Affordable childcare

  • Jobs with livable wages & benefits

  • Enough money for basic needs

Mental Health

Healthy People Wood County (HPWC)

is a partnership of residents, hospitals, nonprofits, businesses, public health officials, and schools, all working together to improve community health. Alone, none of us can overcome the challenges our communities face. Together, we can achieve progress.

Wisconsin is shown in light blue, with a map and location icon highlighting Wood County, linked by a dark purple line.

793

74,207

Total Population

Wood County

Square Miles

An outlined graphic of a purple rural field that features a house and three trees in the background.

37% Rural

63% Urban

A simple graphic of a purple outlined urban town with three buildings and a tree.
"Did You Know?" with lightbulb " Most of the nations cranberries come from Wisconsin, & Wood County boasts the most acres.

Wood County, Wisconsin, is home to 74,207 people and is located in the exact geographic center of Wisconsin. Our county is more rural than the state overall.

Though 91% of our county identifies as White, we are home to strong Amish, Hispanic, Hmong, and Native 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.

Most of the nation's cranberries come from Wisconsin, & Wood County boasts the most acres.