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Number of people in prison in 2020 from each Rhode Island Providence neighborhood

Providence neighborhoods Number of people incarcerated from each Providence neighborhood, 2020 Census population, 2020 Total population, 2020 Incarceration rate 100,000
Blackstone 3 6,923 6,926 43
Charles 39 7,773 7,812 499
College Hill 4 11,388 11,392 35
Downtown 5 5,112 5,117 98
Elmhurst 22 12,175 12,197 180
Elmwood 51 11,685 11,736 435
Federal Hill 19 7,436 7,455 255
Fox Point 6 5,116 5,122 117
Hartford 27 7,910 7,937 340
Hope 5 3,519 3,524 142
Lower South Providence 33 6,814 6,847 482
Manton 18 4,797 4,815 374
Mount Hope 13 5,327 5,340 243
Mount Pleasant 45 11,148 11,193 402
Olneyville 40 7,514 7,554 530
Reservoir 7 3,437 3,444 203
Silver Lake 50 13,622 13,672 366
Smith Hill 40 7,308 7,348 544
South Elmwood 8 2,587 2,595 308
Upper South Providence 52 4,996 5,048 1,030
Valley 22 5,648 5,670 388
Wanskuck 62 12,897 12,959 478
Washington Park 32 8,776 8,808 363
Wayland 0 4,000 4,000 0
West End 83 17,283 17,366 478

Sources and methodology

Providence neighborhoods
This is the Providence neighborhood as drawn by the city and last updated in 2020.
Number of people incarcerated from each Providence neighborhood, 2020
This is the number of people from each Providence neighborhood incarcerated as of 2020. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020
This is the population of the Providence neighborhood as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020
This is the total population of the Providence neighborhood as reflected in the 2020 Census plus the incarcerated population.
Incarceration rate 100,000
This is the number of incarcerated people divided by the total population and then multiplied by 100,000. It allows ready comparison of the frequency of incarceration between each Providence neighborhood of different population sizes.


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