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Number of people in prison in 2020 from each Los Angeles neighborhood

Los Angeles neighborhoods Region of Los AngelesNumber of people in state prison from each Los Angeles neighborhood, 2020 Census population, 2020 Total population, 2020 Imprisonment rate per 100,000
Arlington Heights Central L.A. 117 20,188 20,305 576
Beverly Grove Central L.A. 48 26,392 26,440 182
Carthay Central L.A. 19 5,144 5,163 368
Chinatown Central L.A. 42 15,550 15,592 269
Downtown Central L.A. 262 66,555 66,196 396
East Hollywood Central L.A. 250 61,439 61,689 405
Echo Park Central L.A. 127 33,566 33,693 377
Elysian Park Central L.A. 16 2,090 2,106 760
Elysian Valley Central L.A. 21 6,123 6,144 342
Fairfax Central L.A. 28 12,895 12,923 217
Griffith Park Central L.A. 7 1,106 1,113 629
Hancock Park Central L.A. 17 10,627 10,644 160
Harvard Heights Central L.A. 73 17,677 17,750 411
Hollywood Central L.A. 238 73,475 73,705 323
Hollywood Hills Central L.A. 47 24,162 24,189 194
Hollywood Hills West Central L.A. 39 17,425 17,464 223
Koreatown Central L.A. 349 104,558 104,907 333
Larchmont Central L.A. 24 7,835 7,859 305
Los Feliz Central L.A. 74 32,701 32,775 226
Mid-City Central L.A. 274 49,723 49,997 548
Mid-Wilshire Central L.A. 122 46,039 46,161 264
Pico-Union Central L.A. 177 39,301 39,478 448
Silver Lake Central L.A. 103 29,186 29,265 352
Westlake Central L.A. 430 106,288 106,566 404
Windsor Square Central L.A. 15 5,441 5,456 275
Boyle Heights Eastside 453 87,912 88,362 513
El Sereno Eastside 174 41,951 42,125 413
Lincoln Heights Eastside 145 27,181 27,326 531
Harbor City Harbor 90 26,948 27,038 333
Harbor Gateway Harbor 204 46,603 46,807 436
San Pedro Harbor 340 83,623 82,405 413
Wilmington Harbor 297 54,842 55,139 539
Atwater Village Northeast L.A. 48 13,964 14,012 343
Cypress Park Northeast L.A. 47 8,056 8,103 580
Eagle Rock Northeast L.A. 84 33,339 33,423 251
Glassell Park Northeast L.A. 84 24,117 24,201 347
Highland Park Northeast L.A. 220 51,459 51,679 426
Montecito Heights Northeast L.A. 73 16,497 16,570 441
Mount Washington Northeast L.A. 56 12,599 12,655 443
Arleta San Fernando Valley 105 32,771 32,876 319
Canoga Park San Fernando Valley 201 60,318 60,519 332
Chatsworth San Fernando Valley 106 48,407 48,513 219
Encino San Fernando Valley 106 46,194 46,300 229
Granada Hills San Fernando Valley 166 55,379 55,545 299
Lake Balboa San Fernando Valley 81 26,889 26,970 300
Lake View Terrace San Fernando Valley 44 12,474 12,518 351
Mission Hills San Fernando Valley 72 20,033 20,105 358
North Hills San Fernando Valley 188 58,093 58,281 323
North Hollywood San Fernando Valley 254 78,921 79,175 321
Northridge San Fernando Valley 152 65,809 65,946 230
Pacoima San Fernando Valley 389 77,296 77,685 501
Panorama City San Fernando Valley 286 68,441 68,727 416
Porter Ranch San Fernando Valley 54 26,056 26,110 207
Reseda San Fernando Valley 240 70,554 70,794 339
Shadow Hills San Fernando Valley 44 15,663 15,707 280
Sherman Oaks San Fernando Valley 136 69,813 69,949 194
Studio City San Fernando Valley 82 39,959 40,041 205
Sun Valley San Fernando Valley 278 75,069 75,347 369
Sylmar San Fernando Valley 301 86,750 86,945 346
Tarzana San Fernando Valley 80 37,768 37,848 211
Toluca Lake San Fernando Valley 24 11,330 11,354 211
Valley Glen San Fernando Valley 175 58,996 59,171 296
Valley Village San Fernando Valley 73 27,100 27,173 269
Van Nuys San Fernando Valley 392 109,290 109,682 357
West Hills San Fernando Valley 102 40,605 40,707 251
Winnetka San Fernando Valley 154 50,390 50,544 305
Woodland Hills San Fernando Valley 127 73,175 73,302 173
Playa del Rey South Bay 22 12,424 12,446 177
Westchester South Bay 156 47,730 47,886 326
Adams-Normandie South Central L.A. 101 16,922 17,023 593
Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw South Central L.A. 287 32,375 32,662 879
Broadway-Manchester South Central L.A. 289 29,461 29,750 971
Central-Alameda South Central L.A. 301 43,475 43,776 688
Chesterfield Square South Central L.A. 49 7,131 7,180 682
Exposition Park South Central L.A. 244 33,547 33,774 722
Florence South Central L.A. 440 51,548 51,988 846
Gramercy Park South Central L.A. 147 16,483 16,630 884
Green Meadows South Central L.A. 396 35,836 36,232 1,093
Harvard Park South Central L.A. 103 11,441 11,544 892
Historic South-Central South Central L.A. 282 48,959 49,241 573
Hyde Park South Central L.A. 329 39,756 39,980 823
Jefferson Park South Central L.A. 169 23,812 23,981 705
Leimert Park South Central L.A. 70 12,396 12,466 562
Manchester Square South Central L.A. 127 12,104 12,231 1,038
South Park South Central L.A. 261 33,554 33,815 772
University Park South Central L.A. 85 25,459 25,544 333
Vermont Knolls South Central L.A. 185 23,012 23,197 798
Vermont Square South Central L.A. 410 50,018 50,420 813
Vermont Vista South Central L.A. 244 25,809 26,053 937
Vermont-Slauson South Central L.A. 269 28,896 29,165 922
Watts South Central L.A. 538 48,836 49,374 1,090
West Adams South Central L.A. 150 22,087 22,237 675
Sunland Verdugos 47 16,771 16,818 279
Tujunga Verdugos 81 29,346 29,427 275
Bel-Air Westside 10 7,530 7,540 133
Beverly Crest Westside 36 11,602 11,638 309
Beverlywood Westside 11 6,841 6,852 161
Brentwood Westside 57 35,260 35,317 161
Century City Westside 11 7,442 7,453 148
Cheviot Hills Westside 10 7,619 7,629 131
Del Rey Westside 105 32,120 32,225 326
Mar Vista Westside 82 36,708 36,790 223
Pacific Palisades Westside 47 25,775 25,822 182
Palms Westside 106 45,385 45,491 233
Pico-Robertson Westside 40 22,799 22,839 175
Playa Vista Westside 23 15,760 15,783 146
Rancho Park Westside 8 4,769 4,777 167
Sawtelle Westside 85 39,218 39,303 216
Venice Westside 177 45,888 46,065 384
West Los Angeles Westside 22 14,836 14,858 148
Westwood Westside 88 56,971 57,059 154

Sources and methodology

Los Angeles neighborhoods
This is the City of Los Angeles’ neighborhood as drawn by the Los Angeles Times. We utilized the neighborhoods as defined by the Los Angeles Times’ Mapping L.A. project because the map of L.A. neighborhood councils published by the city has overlapping boundaries, which prohibited us from accurately seeing which specific neighborhood imprisoned people were from. We only included neighborhoods with at least 500 residents.
Region of Los Angeles
This is the region of the City of Los Angeles that the neighborhood is located in. These regions are defined by the Los Angeles Times’ Mapping L.A. project and includes nine geographic regions of the city.
Number of people in state prison from each Los Angeles neighborhood, 2020
This is the number of people from each Los Angeles neighborhood in state prison as of 2020. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020
This is the population of the Los Angeles neighborhood as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020
This is the total population of the Los Angeles neighborhood 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 Los Angeles neighborhood of different population sizes.


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