Every year the Social Security Adminsitration releases a report of the SSI recipients by state and county. You can find the Social Security Administration’s list of Wisconsin counties and the number of SSI recipients in 2008 for each county here. The report does not give you a comparison of the counties by population, so if you’re interested in figuring out what percentage of a particular county’s population is on SSI, you need Wisconsin population data from the Census Bureau to make the comparison.
For instance, Winter, Chewning & Geary, LLP has offices in Manitowoc and Brown counties – both of which are comparable in terms of the percentage of residents on SSI. In Brown County, there are 3,513 blind or disabled individuals on SSI, of those 710 are children. Brown County has an estimated population of 245,018, meaning that roughly 1.4% of the population of that county is on SSI for blindness or disability (I’ve not included the “aged”). Meanwhile, Manitowoc county, a county of only 80, 641, has 1,060 disabled or blind SSI recipients, incluidng 226 children — roughly 1.3% of the population. Meanwhile, Douglas County in far northwest Wisconsin has a rate of almost 2.5%, and Milwaukee County has a rate of 3.5%. Menomonee County with a popluation of only 4,571, has 183 SSI recipients -a rate of 4%.
