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Number of people in prison in 2020 from each Delaware Senate district

Senate Districts Number of people in state prison from each Senate district, 2020 Census population, 2020 Total population, 2020 Imprisonment rate per 100,000
District 1 148 44,708 44,856 330
District 2 533 45,528 44,817 1,189
District 3 528 44,683 44,981 1,174
District 4 23 44,989 45,012 51
District 5 65 44,972 45,037 144
District 6 89 48,392 48,481 184
District 7 122 45,104 45,226 270
District 8 59 45,574 45,633 129
District 9 121 45,707 45,828 264
District 10 58 47,287 47,345 123
District 11 142 47,505 47,647 298
District 12 95 47,273 47,368 201
District 13 160 48,134 48,294 331
District 14 146 50,463 49,189 297
District 15 157 46,974 47,131 333
District 16 224 47,734 47,958 467
District 17 317 48,783 49,015 647
District 18 213 48,328 48,541 439
District 19 193 50,044 49,105 393
District 20 114 48,847 48,961 233
District 21 254 48,919 49,173 517

Sources and methodology

Senate Districts
This is the Delaware Senate district as drawn in 2021.
Number of people in state prison from each Senate district, 2020
This is the number of people from each Senate district in state prison as of 2020. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020
This is the population of the Senate district as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020
This is the total population of the Senate district 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 Senate district of different population sizes.


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