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FIPS code, 2020	Nevada counties	Number of people in state prison from each county, 2020	Census population, 2020	Total population, 2020	Imprisonment rate per 100,000
32001	Churchill	49	25,516	25,565	192
32003	Clark	5,957	2,265,461	2,266,733	263
32005	Douglas	54	49,488	49,542	109
32007	Elko	81	53,702	53,603	151
32009	Esmeralda	0	729	729	0
32011	Eureka	3	1,855	1,858	161
32013	Humboldt	32	17,285	17,253	185
32015	Lander	11	5,734	5,745	191
32017	Lincoln	6	4,499	4,353	138
32019	Lyon	95	59,235	59,330	160
32021	Mineral	8	4,554	4,562	175
32023	Nye	189	51,591	51,720	365
32027	Pershing	15	6,650	5,795	259
32029	Storey	5	4,104	4,109	122
32031	Washoe	1,191	486,492	487,605	244
32033	White Pine	31	9,080	8,499	365
32510	Carson City*	99	58,639	57,613	172

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., 32=NV); and the last three digits are the FIPS county code within the state (e.g., 001=Churchill County). These are the FIPS Codes used in the 2020 Census.
Nevada counties: This is the county or county equivalent as defined by the Census Bureau for Census 2020. *Carson City is an independent city and is treated as a county-equivalent for census purposes.
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.