Shade a Choropleth Map by Your Own ZIP & County Data

Upload your sales file, then open the Boundary Tool in Map Tools and pick the ZIP Codes boundary set. Set the fill type to My Numerical Data, set the Function to Sum, and choose your sales column. Click Load Boundaries and every ZIP colors from high volume to low, with a key of ranges and the total printed on each area. Your accounts stay on top, so you read the shaded volume right around them. Nothing installs, and the whole map fills from one upload.

Yes. Pick the Counties boundary set in the Boundary Tool, set the fill to My Numerical Data, and choose your membership column with the Function set to Sum. Load Boundaries and each county fills by its member total, with a color key you can adjust. If you would rather see an average per county, switch the Function to Average and reload. You can also plot the members themselves as markers on top, so the county color and the points read together on one map.

A choropleth map shades each region, like a ZIP code or county, by a number, so darker or brighter areas carry more of whatever you are mapping. Maptive builds one from your own column. Open the Boundary Tool, set the fill to My Numerical Data, pick a numeric field, and Load Boundaries. The map colors every region and adds a legend of ranges. You control the number of ranges and the color per range in Fill Settings, so the finished thematic map matches how you want to read your numbers.

No. Hand-shading a county map one right-click at a time is the manual habit Maptive replaces. Set the fill to My Numerical Data, pick your column, and Load Boundaries, and every county colors at once from the same field. If your numbers change, reload the fill and the colors update, rather than recoloring each area yourself. A national map that took an afternoon by hand fills in one pass from your spreadsheet.

Yes. Maptive reads Excel, CSV, and Google Sheets, and you can paste rows straight in. On upload, it geocodes your addresses and fills in missing ZIP codes, so a messy file still maps. Any numeric column in that file, like sales, premium, eligibles, or claims dollars, becomes a fill option in the Boundary Tool. You pick the column when you set the fill to My Numerical Data, so the map shades from the same figures you already track in your sheet.

Maptive gives you two ways to split your numbers into color ranges. Value Ranges put an equal number of regions in each band, and Percentage Ranges split the regions by a high-to-low share. You choose which one in Fill Settings, along with the number of ranges and the color and opacity for each band. That lets a small set of ranges read at a glance or a wider set show finer steps. You can reload the fill as often as you want until the map reads the way you need.

Yes. The Function control in the My Numerical Data fill sets how each region rolls up its rows. Sum adds every value in a boundary, Average gives the mean, and Max and Min color by the largest or smallest number in each area. So you can shade counties by total premium one moment and by average premium the next, without changing your file. Reload Boundaries after you change the Function and the colors update to match.

Yes. The color always follows the fill you set, but the label can print a second figure. In Boundary Settings, turn on Include Value to print the fill number, or use Custom Value to print a different metric on each region. So a county can be colored by total sales while its label shows the member count or the average premium. Include Legend adds the key to the map, so a shared view reads on its own without the side panel open.

You shade one boundary set at a time, but you can add more fills and move between them. Color states by summed sales, then add a county fill and a ZIP fill of the same number, and use the active-fill indicator to switch levels. Only one fill shows at a time, so the map stays readable as you change scale. Start wide with states to compare regions, then drop to ZIP codes to see how one part of a metro differs from the next.

Yes. A fill colored by your own numbers can change when you filter the markers underneath it, so Maptive includes an Ignore Filters toggle in Boundary Settings. Turn it on and the choropleth holds steady while you filter the points on top, which lets you show a shaded county map and a filtered set of accounts at the same time. Turn it off when you want the fill to recalculate from the filtered rows instead.