US Counties With the Highest Incarceration of Children Raised Poor Here

1,987 US counties ranked by incarceration of children raised poor here, from highest to lowest. First are Morovis Municipio, PR (0.227), Menominee County, WI (0.0977) and Oglala Lakota County, SD (0.0889). The middle one of the 1,987 has 0.0244.

What this measures

The share of those same children, who grew up here with poor parents, who were in prison on census day in 2010. Source: Opportunity Atlas.

For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.

The 100 highest counties

More on incarceration of children raised poor here

• US Counties With the Lowest Incarceration of Children Raised Poor Here
• Incarceration of children raised poor here by US county: map by year and what it goes with

A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.