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Number of people in prison in 2022 from each East Baton Rouge Parish neighborhood

East Baton Rouge Parish neighborhoods Number of people in state prison from each East Baton Rouge Parish neighborhood, 2022 Census population, 2020 Total population, 2020 Imprisonment rate per 100,000
Baker 92 17,968 17,628 522
Bocage/Citiplace/Concord Estates 6 7,565 7,571 79
Broadmoor 10 5,836 5,846 171
Brookstown 60 6,535 6,595 910
Brownsfield 27 7,364 7,391 365
Central 61 32,103 32,164 190
City Park 2 2,727 2,729 73
College Town 5 4,048 4,053 123
Cortana/Villa Del Rey 14 3,709 3,723 376
Delmont Place 55 4,030 4,085 1,346
Downtown 36 3,228 3,264 1,103
Downtown East 58 3,216 3,274 1,772
East Fairfields/Melrose Place 25 3,005 3,030 825
Eden Park 51 2,900 2,951 1,728
Fairfields 66 3,656 3,722 1,773
Fairwood 21 6,858 6,879 305
Forest Heights/Sunnybrook 7 2,375 2,382 294
Glen Oaks/Zion City 94 12,521 12,615 745
Goodwood 9 5,008 5,017 179
Goodwood Homesites 15 3,961 3,976 377
Istrouma/Dixie 43 3,439 3,482 1,235
Jefferson/Drusilla 2 5,720 5,722 35
Jefferson/Tiger Bend 18 18,914 18,932 95
Jefferson Terrace/Inniswold 6 6,981 6,987 86
Jones Creek 51 27,836 27,887 183
Kenilworth 0 3,112 3,112 0
Kleinpeter 17 10,458 10,475 162
LSU 2 10,581 10,583 19
Legion Village 11 1,541 1,552 709
Mayfair 24 5,885 5,909 406
Mid City 31 8,213 8,244 376
Millerville 15 6,785 6,800 221
Monticello 28 5,563 5,591 501
North Baton Rouge 141 11,965 12,104 1,165
North Sherwood Forest 65 8,206 8,271 786
O'Neal 22 8,341 8,363 263
Old South Baton Rouge 93 8,394 8,487 1,096
Park Forest/Oakcrest 25 6,774 6,799 368
Perkins/Highland 7 13,911 13,918 50
Pollard/Woodchase 13 4,763 4,776 272
Port Hudson 11 6,611 6,517 169
Pride/Chaneyville 23 6,684 6,707 343
Scotlandville 93 10,427 10,180 914
Shenandoah 8 13,608 13,616 59
Sherwood Forest 22 9,977 9,999 220
Smiley Heights/Melrose East 39 3,695 3,734 1,044
South Bluebonnet/Nicholson 4 10,555 10,559 38
South Burbank 58 19,463 19,521 297
South Campus 66 13,556 13,622 485
Southside 2 4,288 4,290 47
Stevendale 29 6,733 6,762 429
Tara 1 3,558 3,559 28
The Avenues/Southern Univ 23 4,798 4,821 477
University Acres/Woodstone 4 4,550 4,554 88
Valley Park 14 1,608 1,622 863
Victoria Farms 20 4,076 4,096 488
Westminster/Pine Park 7 4,745 4,752 147
Zachary 32 19,881 19,913 161

Sources and methodology

East Baton Rouge Parish neighborhoods
This is the East Baton Rouge Parish’s neighborhoods as drawn by the parish and last updated in 2019.
Number of people in state prison from each East Baton Rouge Parish neighborhood, 2022
This is the number of people from each East Baton Rouge Parish neighborhood in state prison as of 2022. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020
This is the population of the East Baton Rouge Parish neighborhood as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020
This is the total population of the East Baton Rouge Parish 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 East Baton Rouge Parish neighborhood of different population sizes.


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