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Number of people in prison in 2022 from each Louisiana parish

FIPS code, 2020 Louisiana Parishes Number of people in state prison from each parish, 2022 Census population, 2020 Total population, 2020 Imprisonment rate per 100,000
001 Acadia 235 57,576 57,782 407
003 Allen 122 22,750 21,816 559
005 Ascension 247 126,500 126,661 195
007 Assumption 102 21,039 21,107 483
009 Avoyelles 181 39,693 38,043 476
011 Beauregard 219 36,549 36,055 607
013 Bienville 80 12,981 13,053 613
015 Bossier 443 128,746 128,641 344
017 Caddo 1,803 237,848 239,409 753
019 Calcasieu 918 216,785 217,669 422
021 Caldwell 67 9,645 9,175 730
023 Cameron 21 5,617 5,629 373
025 Catahoula 53 8,906 8,542 620
027 Claiborne 73 14,170 12,798 570
029 Concordia 118 18,687 18,259 646
031 DeSoto 169 26,812 26,944 627
033 East Baton Rouge 1,770 456,781 457,672 387
035 East Carroll 27 7,459 6,706 403
037 East Feliciana 75 19,539 17,855 420
039 Evangeline 191 32,350 32,506 588
041 Franklin 151 19,774 19,166 788
043 Grant 111 22,169 22,229 499
045 Iberia 306 69,929 70,171 436
047 Iberville 146 30,241 28,744 508
049 Jackson 43 15,031 15,074 285
051 Jefferson 2,070 440,781 442,758 468
053 Jefferson Davis 117 32,250 32,353 362
055 Lafayette 522 241,753 242,075 216
057 Lafourche 363 97,557 97,683 372
059 La Salle 78 14,791 14,794 527
061 Lincoln 174 48,396 48,473 359
063 Livingston 563 142,282 142,601 395
065 Madison 42 10,017 8,566 490
067 Morehouse 148 25,629 25,502 580
069 Natchitoches 153 37,515 37,582 407
071 Orleans 2,519 383,997 386,469 652
073 Ouachita 651 160,368 160,572 405
075 Plaquemines 67 23,515 23,220 289
077 Pointe Coupee 87 20,758 20,832 418
079 Rapides 730 130,023 130,265 560
081 Red River 30 7,620 7,630 393
083 Richland 111 20,043 19,609 566
085 Sabine 88 22,155 22,186 397
087 St. Bernard 179 43,764 43,925 408
089 St. Charles 167 52,549 52,680 317
091 St. Helena 47 10,920 10,951 429
093 St. James 52 20,192 20,235 257
095 St. John The Baptist 160 42,477 42,595 376
097 St. Landry 318 82,540 82,828 384
099 St. Martin 155 51,767 51,897 299
101 St. Mary 233 49,406 49,552 470
103 St. Tammany 943 264,570 265,197 356
105 Tangipahoa 575 133,157 133,514 431
107 Tensas 19 4,147 3,794 501
109 Terrebonne 589 109,580 109,957 536
111 Union 87 21,107 20,944 415
113 Vermilion 175 57,359 57,511 304
115 Vernon 215 48,750 48,944 439
117 Washington 402 45,463 44,594 901
119 Webster 251 36,967 36,813 682
121 West Baton Rouge 116 27,199 27,005 430
123 West Carroll 48 9,751 9,781 491
125 West Feliciana 30 15,310 10,922 275
127 Winn 74 13,755 13,778 537

Sources and methodology

FIPS code, 2020
FIPS (Federal Information Processing Series) Codes are codes used by the Census Bureau to uniquely identify counties and county equivalents in the US. The first two digits are the FIPS state code (e.g., 22=LA); and the last three digits are the FIPS county code within the state (e.g., 001=Acadia Parish). These are the FIPS Codes used in the 2020 Census.
Louisiana Parishes
This is the parish or county equivalent as defined by the Census Bureau for Census 2020.
Number of people in state prison from each parish, 2022
This is the number of people from each parish in state prison as of 2022. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020
This is the population of the parish as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020
This is the total population of the parish 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 parish of different population sizes.


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