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Number of people in prison in 2020 from each Tacoma Neighborhood

Tacoma neighborhoods Number of people in state prison from each Tacoma neighborhood, 2020 Census population, 2020 Total population, 2020 Imprisonment rate per 100,000
Central 159 20,734 20,893 761
Eastside 202 34,303 34,505 585
New Tacoma 460 15,604 16,064 2,864
North East 20 19,798 19,818 101
North End 41 28,675 28,716 143
South End 274 47,805 48,079 570
South Tacoma 0 255 255 0
South Tacoma 155 33,111 33,266 466
West End 71 35,973 35,982 197

Sources and methodology

Tacoma neighborhoods
This is the Tacoma neighborhood council district as drawn by the city and updated in 2020.
Number of people in state prison from each Tacoma neighborhood, 2020
This is the number of people from each Tacoma neighborhood in state prison as of 2020. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020
This is the population of the Tacoma neighborhood as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020
This is the total population of the Tacoma 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 Tacoma neighborhood of different population sizes.


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