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Number of people in prison in 2020 from each Connecticut county

FIPS code, 2020 Connecticut counties Number of people in state prison from each county, 2020 Census population, 2020 Total population, 2020 Imprisonment rate per 100,000
09001 Fairfield County 2,325 957,419 957,488 243
09003 Hartford County 2,958 899,498 897,563 330
09005 Litchfield County 353 185,186 185,539 190
09007 Middlesex County 216 164,245 164,461 131
09009 New Haven County 3,242 864,835 866,075 374
09011 New London County 737 268,555 267,388 276
09013 Tolland County 210 149,788 148,707 141
09015 Windham County 334 116,418 116,345 287

Sources and methodology

FIPS code, 2020
FIPS (Federal Information Processing Series) Codes are codes used by the Census Bureau to uniquely identify counties and county equivalents in the US. The first two digits are the FIPS state code (e.g., 09=CT and the last three digits are the FIPS county code within the state (e.g., 001=Fairfield County). These are the FIPS Codes used in the 2020 Census.
Connecticut counties
This is the county or county equivalent as defined by the Census Bureau for Census 2020.
Number of people in state prison from each county, 2020
This is the number of people from each county in state prison as of 2020. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020
This is the population of the county as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020
This is the total population of the county 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 county of different population sizes.


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