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Number of people in prison in 2020 from each Bridgeport neighborhood

Bridgeport neighborhoods Number of people in state prison from each Bridgeport neighborhood, 2020 Census population, 2020 Total population, 2020 Imprisonment rate per 100,000
Black Rock 26 9,245 9,271 280
Brooklawn/St Vincent’s 134 26,650 26,141 513
Downtown 30 2,489 2,519 1,191
East End 172 9,397 9,569 1,797
East Side 227 14,382 14,609 1,554
Enterprise 4 872 876 457
Hollow 103 10,116 10,219 1,008
Mill Hill 136 13,981 14,117 963
North End 83 25,898 25,981 319
Reservoir 109 11,179 11,288 966
South End 42 3,702 3,744 1,122
Upper East Side 66 10,603 10,669 619
West Side/West End 228 18,346 18,574 1,228

Sources and methodology

Bridgeport neighborhoods
This is the Bridgeport neighborhood as drawn by the city in 2018 and provided by the city’s GIS office.
Number of people in state prison from each Bridgeport neighborhood, 2020
This is the number of people from each Bridgeport neighborhood in state prison as of 2020. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020
This is the population of the Bridgeport neighborhood as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020
This is the total population of the Bridgeport 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 Bridgeport neighborhood of different population sizes.


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