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Number of people in prison in 2020 from each Nevada county

FIPS code, 2020 Nevada counties Number of people in state prison from each county, 2020 Census population, 2020 Total population, 2020 Imprisonment rate per 100,000
32001 Churchill 49 25,516 25,565 192
32003 Clark 5,957 2,265,461 2,266,733 263
32005 Douglas 54 49,488 49,542 109
32007 Elko 81 53,702 53,603 151
32009 Esmeralda 0 729 729 0
32011 Eureka 3 1,855 1,858 161
32013 Humboldt 32 17,285 17,253 185
32015 Lander 11 5,734 5,745 191
32017 Lincoln 6 4,499 4,353 138
32019 Lyon 95 59,235 59,330 160
32021 Mineral 8 4,554 4,562 175
32023 Nye 189 51,591 51,720 365
32027 Pershing 15 6,650 5,795 259
32029 Storey 5 4,104 4,109 122
32031 Washoe 1,191 486,492 487,605 244
32033 White Pine 31 9,080 8,499 365
32510 Carson City* 99 58,639 57,613 172

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., 32=NV); and the last three digits are the FIPS county code within the state (e.g., 001=Churchill County). These are the FIPS Codes used in the 2020 Census.
Nevada counties
This is the county or county equivalent as defined by the Census Bureau for Census 2020. *Carson City is an independent city and is treated as a county-equivalent for census purposes.
Number of people in state prison from each county, 2020
This is the number of people from each county in state prison as of 2020. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020
This is the population of the county as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020
This is the total population of the county 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 county of different population sizes.


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