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Number of people in state prison or a local jail in 2020 from each Virginia State Senate district

State Senate Districts Number of people in state prison or a local jail from each State Senate district, 2020 Census population, 2020 Total population, 2020 Incarceration rate per 100,000
District 1 797 219,235 219,464 363
District 2 1,334 214,436 213,860 624
District 3 1,422 212,330 213,402 666
District 4 1,548 220,283 220,600 702
District 5 1,603 219,841 219,146 731
District 6 2,070 214,980 213,557 969
District 7 1,817 216,978 217,620 835
District 8 1,357 214,167 214,868 632
District 9 2,203 216,232 214,702 1,026
District 10 1,019 217,521 214,277 476
District 11 896 214,315 214,453 418
District 12 469 219,065 219,101 214
District 13 2,048 214,104 213,623 959
District 14 2,335 218,151 219,881 1,062
District 15 1,529 218,118 219,647 696
District 16 496 218,730 218,175 227
District 17 1,833 220,422 216,724 846
District 18 2,315 211,841 213,095 1,086
District 19 651 215,153 212,136 307
District 20 1,007 216,911 217,760 462
District 21 2,481 212,429 214,208 1,158
District 22 994 213,023 214,017 464
District 23 1,818 214,318 215,570 843
District 24 812 211,184 211,657 384
District 25 1,265 211,499 211,418 598
District 26 773 216,759 217,507 355
District 27 957 213,387 213,276 449
District 28 989 211,893 211,795 467
District 29 509 210,158 210,667 242
District 30 457 215,184 215,164 212
District 31 212 220,267 220,298 96
District 32 176 220,609 220,785 80
District 33 363 217,777 218,140 166
District 34 251 216,368 216,619 116
District 35 194 220,142 220,336 88
District 36 122 212,399 212,521 57
District 37 135 213,556 213,326 63
District 38 145 215,638 215,783 67
District 39 294 220,559 220,720 133
District 40 159 211,431 211,495 75

Sources and methodology

State Senate Districts
This is the Virginia State Senate district as drawn in 2021.
Number of people in state prison or a local jail from each State Senate district, 2020
This is the number of people from each State Senate district in state prison or a local jail 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.
Incarceration rate per 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 State Senate district of different population sizes.


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