Kern County, CA Inmate Search

How to Search Kern County, CA Inmate Records

Kern County, CA jails hold prisoners after an arrest or people who have been transferred to the county from a detention center. Kern County holds 24 jails with a total of 572,400 inmates. These correctional facilities have private cells for extremely violent criminals or controversial suspects. Kern County jails are subject to health and medical restrictions and have to provide medical care to all its inmates.

Kern County Inmate Quick Facts

2,321

Kern County Population Total

236,285 / 130 / 306

Female Population, Rate & Count

261,332 / 749 / 1,957

Male Population, Rate & Count

$48,552

Median Income

4,715.2

Arrest Rate

378.8

Local Jail Rate

2,176

Local Jail Count (the average # of people in jail for one day)

2,321

Population Total Confined

227

Pretrial Rate

6,108

Admit Rate

35,093

Admit Count

572,400

Yearly Prisoner Count

County Crime Records by Type

Kern County is well known for its Property Crime Totals, it has a share of 40.20% of all the crimes committed in the county - 10,440 Property Crime Total cases. Murder And Nonnegligent Manslaughter is the least trendy crime of the area with only 0.17% out of all the crimes in Kern County.

Crimes % in 2016 - TOTAL ALL AGENCIES

The Timeline of the County Crime Trends

Kern County Jail Demographics

The county has 879,497 people confined with a jail population density of 71 prisoners per jail. When breaking down the population by gender, females are a minority compared to male prisoners, being 273,573 women and 298,827 men.

Kern County Prison Records by Race & Ethnicity

County Jail Statistics

The county has an arrest rate of 4,715 and a local jail rate of 379 inmates per year and a pretrial rate of 227 pre trials per 100,000 residents aged from 15 to 64. The jail admit rate for the area equals 6,108, which is lower compared to the statistics of 2005 - 8,456 incarcerations a year.

Local Jail, Pretrial and Admit Rates

The average jail count for Kern is 2,176 incarcerations in a day. The numbers have increased during the last 10 years, when there were on average 1,961 imprisonments a day.