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Number of people in prison in 2020 from each Montana Billings neighborhood

Billings neighborhoods Number of people in state prison from each Billings neighborhood, 2020 Census population, 2020 Total population, 2020 Imprisonment rate per 100,000
Blue Creek 6 2,815 2,821 213
East Central 50 17,102 17,152 292
Heights 42 30,295 30,337 138
Highlands 7 7,759 7,766 90
Lockwood 13 7,201 7,214 180
North Central 4 17,264 17,268 23
North Side 41 4,640 4,681 876
South Central 36 10,409 10,445 345
South Side 55 4,272 4,110 1,338
West Alkali Creek 0 905 905 0
West Central 25 17,906 17,931 139
West Shiloh 1 14,332 14,333 7

Sources and methodology

Billings neighborhoods
This is the Billings Community Planning Neighborhood as provided by the Billings Planning Department.
Number of people in state prison from each Billings neighborhood, 2020
This is the number of people from each Billings neighborhood in state prison as of 2020. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020
This is the population of the Billings neighborhood as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020
This is the total population of the Billings 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 Billings neighborhood of different population sizes.


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