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Number of people in prison in 2020 from each Nevada Senate district

State Senate Districts Number of people in state prison from each Senate district, 2020 Census population, 2020 Total population, 2020 Imprisonment rate per 100,000
District 1 280 148,900 148,528 189
District 2 810 148,240 149,050 543
District 3 575 148,276 148,851 386
District 4 885 147,742 148,627 595
District 5 260 149,008 149,268 174
District 6 337 148,675 149,012 226
District 7 538 148,212 148,750 362
District 8 194 148,308 148,502 131
District 9 240 148,821 149,061 161
District 10 633 148,261 148,731 426
District 11 123 148,692 148,815 83
District 12 185 148,532 148,717 124
District 13 755 144,306 144,983 521
District 14 174 144,716 143,956 121
District 15 276 144,657 144,933 190
District 16 148 146,412 145,435 102
District 17 212 143,769 143,921 147
District 18 208 147,363 147,571 141
District 19 322 154,256 149,764 215
District 20 134 148,846 148,980 90
District 21 537 148,622 149,159 360

Sources and methodology

State Senate Districts
This is the Nevada State Senate district as drawn in 2021.
Number of people in state prison from each Senate district, 2020
This is the number of people from each State Senate district in state prison as of 2020. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020
This is the population of the State Senate district as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020
This is the total population of the State Senate district 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 Senate district of different population sizes.


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