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Number of people in prison in 2020 from each New Jersey State legislative district

Legislative districts Number of people in state prison from each State legislative district, 2020 Census population, 2020 Total population, 2020 Imprisonment rate per 100,000
District 1 879 236,469 229,633 383
District 2 915 231,513 232,422 394
District 3 361 235,844 236,205 153
District 4 362 233,380 233,742 155
District 5 1,415 236,069 237,187 597
District 6 287 234,536 234,823 122
District 7 326 230,129 230,455 141
District 8 279 230,522 225,591 124
District 9 192 230,473 230,665 83
District 10 196 225,447 225,640 87
District 11 578 229,027 229,602 252
District 12 161 225,080 225,241 71
District 13 173 230,013 230,186 75
District 14 163 226,021 226,184 72
District 15 884 234,229 232,394 380
District 16 70 226,761 226,298 31
District 17 523 233,202 233,721 224
District 18 202 234,917 235,119 86
District 19 398 239,157 237,856 167
District 20 590 228,148 228,731 258
District 21 56 229,293 229,349 24
District 22 502 238,211 238,713 210
District 23 190 237,918 237,553 80
District 24 142 237,827 237,969 60
District 25 129 238,402 238,522 54
District 26 71 226,075 226,146 31
District 27 133 239,399 239,532 56
District 28 1,341 228,206 228,648 586
District 29 1,052 233,187 231,803 454
District 30 178 226,261 226,439 79
District 31 661 235,975 236,630 279
District 32 189 230,578 230,767 82
District 33 181 236,257 236,438 77
District 34 628 233,331 233,959 268
District 35 1,126 238,160 239,237 471
District 36 270 233,301 233,571 116
District 37 179 229,124 229,296 78
District 38 105 224,696 224,801 47
District 39 42 231,428 231,470 18
District 40 50 230,428 230,478 22

Sources and methodology

Legislative districts
This is the New Jersey state legislative district as drawn in 2022.
Number of people in state prison from each State legislative district, 2020
This is the number of people from each State legislative districts in state prison as of 2020. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020
This is the population of the State legislative districts as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020
This is the total population of the State legislative districts 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 State legislative districts of different population sizes.


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