Counties We Serve
Where we work
No two counties have the same gap in the same place.
The sequence does not change from county to county, but what it finds does. We work in counties across the upper Midwest that look broadly like these three — and most administrators recognize their own in one of them.
The single-hub county
Rural townships arranged around one small-city service hub. When nearly everything a resident needs sits in one place, the distance between that place and where people actually live becomes the gap that shapes every other one.
More geography than population
A large county, thinly settled, with one town at its center. Here the binding constraint is travel time: a service that exists is not the same as a service a resident can reach on a weekday.
Several towns, no center
A handful of small cities, none of them dominant, and an aging population spread across all of them. Coordination has to happen between municipalities rather than inside one, which makes convening the harder half of the work.
Is yours next? Whether your county looks like one of these or like none of them, that is the usual reason to get in touch.