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Providence City Council Wards	Number of people incarcerated from each City Council Ward, 2020	Census population, 2020	Total population, 2020	Incarceration rate 100,000
Ward 1	10	13,399	13,409	75
Ward 2	3	13,361	13,364	22
Ward 3	22	13,357	13,379	164
Ward 4	67	12,235	12,302	545
Ward 5	29	12,131	12,160	238
Ward 6	54	12,777	12,831	421
Ward 7	53	14,206	14,259	372
Ward 8	66	13,501	13,567	486
Ward 9	51	13,039	13,090	390
Ward 10	52	12,860	12,912	403
Ward 11	88	12,184	12,272	717
Ward 12	62	13,328	13,390	463
Ward 13	32	12,416	12,448	257
Ward 14	44	13,074	13,118	335
Ward 15	53	12,817	12,870	412

Providence City Council Wards: This is the Providence, Rhode Island City Council Ward as drawn in 2022.
Number of people incarcerated from each City Council Ward, 2020: This is the number of people from each City Council Ward incarcerated as of 2020. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020: This is the population of the City Council ward as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020: This is the total population of the City Council ward as reflected in the 2020 Census plus the incarcerated population.
Incarceration rate 100,000: This is the number of incarcerated people divided by the total population and then multiplied by 100,000. It allows ready comparison of the frequency of incarceration between each City Council ward of different population sizes.