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Number of people in prison in 2020 from each Hartford neighborhood

Hartford neighborhoods Number of people in state prison from each Hartford neighborhood, 2020 Census population, 2020 Total population, 2020 Imprisonment rate per 100,000
Asylum Hill 140 10,811 10,951 1,278
Barry Square 156 13,957 14,113 1,105
Behind the Rocks 76 8,656 8,732 870
Blue Hills 82 11,858 11,940 687
Clay‑Arsenal 96 6,437 6,533 1,469
Downtown 17 3,065 3,082 552
Frog Hollow 108 8,802 8,910 1,212
North Meadows* 8 889 37 21,622
Northeast 183 11,259 11,442 1,599
Parkville 61 6,311 6,372 957
Sheldon‑Charter Oak 41 3,242 3,283 1,249
South End 72 13,608 13,680 526
South Green 40 2,864 2,904 1,377
South Meadows* 7 259 266 2,632
South West 40 7,192 7,232 553
Upper Albany 133 6,804 6,937 1,917
West End 44 8,922 8,966 491

Sources and methodology

Hartford neighborhoods
This is the Hartford neighborhood as drawn by the city in 2020. * The neighborhoods of South Meadows and North Meadows have far fewer residents than all other neighborhoods in Hartford. We recommend caution when interpreting these imprisonment rates given the much smaller denominator.
Number of people in state prison from each Hartford neighborhood, 2020
This is the number of people from each Hartford neighborhood in state prison as of 2020. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020
This is the population of the Hartford neighborhood as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020
This is the total population of the Hartford 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 Hartford neighborhood of different population sizes.


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