Jail admission rate
Bookings into this county's jails during the year, per 100,000 residents aged 15 to 64. The middle county is 2,033, five times its jail population rate, since most jail stays are short. A county that books many people for one night each has a high admission rate and a low population rate. The two describe different kinds of systems.
Reported for2,832areas, in 45 states — none in AK, CT, DE, HI, PR, RI, VT
Link to density0.02not mostly about how urban a place is
Nearby places alike0.21Moran’s I: only weakly, little map pattern
Typerateper 100,000 aged 15-64
How it has moved
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Every state, every year
Nothing to draw here: this measure has no state figures. Its publisher reports it for counties. This site does not add county numbers up into state figures, since a home-made figure could clash with one an agency publishes itself. The chart above covers the whole country, year by year.
Where it comes from
· Vera Incarceration Trends total_jail_admits_rate
Bookings into this county's jails over the year. Admissions and population measure different things. A county that books many people for one night each has a high admission rate but a low population rate. Rates are per 100,000 residents aged 15 to 64, not per 100,000 people. Time period: from the jail series the Bureau of Justice Statistics collected until 2019, which is also the last year Vera publishes county prison data.
Combining areas: an average weighted by total population.
Population makeup
How this measure varies with the racial and ethnic makeup of counties. Every group is shown, whatever its rank. These are links across counties: they describe places, not people. They say nothing about any person’s risk or behaviour based on their race. Counties with a larger share of one group also differ in much else, such as income, segregation, region and history. The adjusted figure only accounts for density, income and education.
| Share of residents | Unadjusted | Adjusted |
|---|---|---|
| Jail admission rate and Share White, not HispanicCould easily be chance once only places with similar density, income and education are compared. Share White, not Hispanic by US county | -0.12 | -0.10 |
| Jail admission rate and Share Black, not HispanicCould easily be chance once only places with similar density, income and education are compared. Share Black, not Hispanic by US county | +0.15 | +0.09 |
| Jail admission rate and Share Hispanic or Latino, any raceCould easily be chance once only places with similar density, income and education are compared. Share Hispanic or Latino, any race by US county | +0.07 | +0.09 |
| Jail admission rate and Share Asian, not HispanicCould easily be chance once only places with similar density, income and education are compared. Share Asian, not Hispanic by US county | -0.10 | -0.01 |
| Jail admission rate and Share American Indian or Alaska Native, not HispanicCould easily be chance once only places with similar density, income and education are compared. Share American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic by US county | +0.06 | +0.02 |
Highest and lowest
Of 2,832 counties reporting it. These are the two ends of a national ranking. For most measures, that ranking mostly sorts places by income and how urban they are. That is why the place pages compare each place with similar places instead.
Highest
- Brooks County, TX — 88,330
- Linn County, KS — 67,623
- Crittenden County, AR — 67,350
- Val Verde County, TX — 58,029
- Nez Perce County, ID — 43,101
Lowest
- Allendale County, SC — 0
- Jefferson Davis County, MS — 7.2
- Logan County, AR — 11.3
- Union County, NM — 30.2
- Sedgwick County, CO — 36.6
The middle area reports 2,033. The middle half of counties falls between 1,377 and 3,441 (the 25th to 75th percentile).
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