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Number of people in prison in 2020 from each Fresno Community Planning Area

Fresno Community Planning Areas (CPAs) Number of people in state prison from each Fresno CPA, 2020 Census population, 2020 Total population, 2020 Imprisonment rate per 100,000
Fresno High-Roeding 429 60,356 60,785 706
Roosevelt 479 107,943 108,422 442
Downtown 514 68,963 69,436 740
Woodward Park 142 62,486 62,628 227
Bullard 302 104,943 105,245 287
West 220 57,558 57,778 381
Hoover 201 55,911 56,112 358
McLane 325 65,435 65,760 494

Sources and methodology

Fresno Community Planning Areas (CPAs)
This is the Community Planning Area in Fresno as drawn in 2021.
Number of people in state prison from each Fresno CPA, 2020
This is the number of people from each Fresno Community Planning Area in state prison as of 2020. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020
This is the population of the Fresno CPA as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020
This is the total population of the Fresno CPA 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 Fresno CPA of different population sizes.


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