Number of people in prison in 2020 from each Buffalo neighborhood

Buffalo neighborhoods	Number of people in state prison from each neighborhood, 2020	Census population, 2020	Total population, 2020	Imprisonment rate per 100,000
Central	8	3,930	3,938	203
Lower West Side	48	6,525	6,573	730
Allentown	10	3,898	3,908	256
West Side	58	11,516	11,574	501
Elmwood Bryant	34	11,606	11,640	292
Upper West Side	55	10,370	10,425	528
Elmwood Bidwell	29	15,457	15,486	187
Black Rock	20	4,213	4,233	472
Grant-Amherst	17	4,354	4,371	389
Riverside	55	12,895	12,950	425
West Hertel	21	4,886	4,907	428
North Park	37	18,786	18,823	197
Parkside	14	8,122	8,136	172
Central Park	15	6,202	6,217	241
University Heights	67	14,401	14,468	463
Kensington-Bailey	151	15,578	15,729	960
Fillmore-Leroy	75	5,627	5,702	1,315
Kenfield	74	8,631	8,705	850
Delavan Grider	85	5,885	5,970	1,424
Hamlin Park	47	6,570	6,617	710
Masten Park	94	7,663	7,757	1,212
MLK Park	52	4,685	4,737	1,098
Genesee-Moselle	143	9,352	9,495	1,506
Schiller Park	120	10,506	10,626	1,129
Lovejoy	47	8,952	8,999	522
First Ward	11	2,426	2,437	451
Broadway Fillmore	135	13,788	13,923	970
Fruit Belt	28	3,135	3,163	885
Pratt-Willert	36	3,994	4,030	893
Ellicott	24	2,973	2,997	801
Seneca Babcock	14	2,640	2,654	528
Kaisertown	20	6,103	6,123	327
Seneca-Cazenovia	30	10,767	10,797	278
Hopkins-Tifft	28	7,641	7,669	365
South Park	24	15,772	15,796	152

Sources and methodology

Buffalo neighborhoods: This is the neighborhood as updated by the City of Buffalo in 2021.
Number of people in state prison from each neighborhood, 2020: This is the number of people from each neighborhood in state prison as of 2020. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020: This is the population of the neighborhood as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020: This is the total population of the 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 neighborhood of different population sizes.