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Number of people in prison in 2020 from each California State Assembly districts

State Assembly districts Number of people in state prison from each State Assembly districts, 2020 Census population, 2020 Total population, 2020 Imprisonment rate per 100,000
District 1 2,006 512,334 506,402 396
District 2 2,417 516,057 518,416 466
District 3 1,192 520,428 514,921 231
District 4 602 486,148 482,778 125
District 5 2,061 487,894 489,925 421
District 6 819 474,886 475,705 172
District 7 1,060 511,229 512,289 207
District 8 378 516,981 516,216 73
District 9 685 517,813 518,498 132
District 10 1,281 483,986 485,267 264
District 11 512 503,359 503,871 102
District 12 1,237 506,650 504,804 245
District 13 578 516,280 516,830 112
District 14 680 493,022 493,702 138
District 15 1,615 469,973 471,588 342
District 16 583 473,417 474,000 123
District 17 576 477,850 478,426 120
District 18 1,471 496,423 497,894 295
District 19 712 471,948 472,660 151
District 20 1,999 521,398 512,647 390
District 21 893 472,289 473,114 189
District 22 1,683 499,659 495,410 340
District 23 2,091 495,048 496,832 421
District 24 1,056 477,069 474,319 223
District 25 2,616 495,469 498,044 525
District 26 1,860 518,633 515,015 361
District 27 2,667 515,800 505,368 528
District 28 2,003 526,113 518,705 386
District 29 2,560 493,578 482,837 530
District 30 1,546 480,861 469,902 329
District 31 1,268 475,530 474,067 267
District 32 1,263 484,403 485,654 260
District 33 2,808 481,961 484,755 579
District 34 1,241 474,729 475,880 261
District 35 1,179 515,962 517,085 228
District 36 1,603 483,563 485,018 331
District 37 766 516,939 517,503 148
District 38 1,940 506,248 508,082 382
District 39 1,226 513,342 514,568 238
District 40 2,151 488,449 490,577 438
District 41 1,433 502,291 503,724 284
District 42 1,907 516,843 518,651 368
District 43 1,776 480,889 482,665 368
District 44 1,355 473,503 474,851 285
District 45 750 497,826 498,465 150
District 46 1,502 488,463 489,965 307
District 47 1,126 496,232 497,330 226
District 48 1,991 516,098 518,060 384
District 49 1,890 477,425 475,714 397
District 50 2,061 504,393 505,678 408
District 51 2,167 474,285 476,444 455
District 52 1,697 491,476 493,173 344
District 53 3,746 503,462 507,191 739
District 54 2,155 494,481 496,636 434
District 55 774 471,260 470,576 164
District 56 2,453 517,094 518,242 473
District 57 2,424 467,518 469,942 516
District 58 2,745 489,139 491,779 558
District 59 2,059 470,768 472,817 435
District 60 1,399 481,049 478,438 292
District 61 1,745 510,608 512,311 341
District 62 3,602 501,352 503,396 716
District 63 1,321 472,694 474,015 279
District 64 1,110 472,184 473,294 235
District 65 1,635 483,589 485,224 337
District 66 2,208 477,955 479,919 460
District 67 1,720 495,558 491,703 350
District 68 1,020 471,258 472,278 216
District 69 868 493,478 494,346 176
District 70 634 494,726 495,360 128
District 71 645 499,880 500,525 129
District 72 1,155 511,047 512,202 226
District 73 1,111 474,296 471,193 236
District 74 1,063 470,607 471,670 225
District 75 951 508,499 508,556 187
District 76 1,142 511,710 512,852 223
District 77 2,174 503,727 505,901 430
District 78 1,259 503,696 501,653 251
District 79 1,468 515,699 517,104 284
District 80 1,268 477,444 470,020 270

Sources and methodology

State Assembly districts
This is the California Assembly district as drawn in 2021.
Number of people in state prison from each State Assembly districts, 2020
This is the number of people from each State Assembly districts in state prison as of 2020. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020
This is the population of the State Assembly districts as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020
This is the total population of the State Assembly districts as reflected in the 2020 Census plus the imprisoned population.
Imprisonment rate per 100,000
This is the number of imprisoned people divided by the total population and then multiplied by 100,000. It allows ready comparison of the frequency of imprisonment between each State Assembly districts of different population sizes.


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