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Santa Cruz County, CA jails hold prisoners after an arrest or people who have been transferred to the county from a detention center. Santa Cruz County holds 7 jails with a total of 189,631 inmates. These correctional facilities have private cells for extremely violent criminals or controversial suspects. Santa Cruz County jails are subject to health and medical restrictions and have to provide medical care to all its inmates.
Santa Cruz County Quick Facts
410
Santa Cruz County Population Total
89,533 / 76 / 68
Female Population, Rate & Count
91,608 / 565 / 518
Male Population, Rate & Count
$66,519
Median Income
4,584.8
Arrest Rate
216.1
Local Jail Rate
410
Local Jail Count (the average # of people in jail for one
day)
410
Population Total Confined
161
Pretrial Rate
2,047
Admit Rate
3,884
Admit Count
189,631
Yearly Prisoner Count
County Crimes by Type
Santa Cruz County is well known for its Property Crime Totals, it has a share of 43.77% of all the crimes committed in the county - 2,050 Property Crime Total cases. Murder And Nonnegligent Manslaughter is the least trendy crime of the area with only 0.02% out of all the crimes in Santa Cruz County.
Crimes % in 2016 - TOTAL ALL AGENCIES
6.08
%
Violent Crime
0.02
%
Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter
0.77
%
Revised Rape
0.94
%
Robbery
4.36
%
Aggravated Assault
43.77
%
Property Crime
10.35
%
Burglary
32.73
%
Larceny Theft
0.68
%
Motor Vehicle Theft
0.30
%
Arson
The Timeline of the County Crime Trends
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Violent Crime Total
315
298
256
332
291
301
362
285
296
286
295
Murder And Nonnegligent Manslaughter
0
7
4
3
2
7
3
5
3
0
0
Revised Rape
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
25
Legacy Rape
34
33
21
32
18
18
34
20
20
20
0
Robbery
44
25
33
61
40
36
36
32
35
29
40
Aggravated Assault
237
233
198
236
231
240
289
228
238
237
230
Property Crime Total
2,806
2,596
2,396
2,298
2,479
2,232
2,301
1,910
1,874
1,701
1,935
Burglary
844
830
710
692
804
812
913
721
740
657
604
Larceny Theft
1,947
1,750
1,674
1,595
1,663
1,419
1,382
1,182
1,118
1,035
1,323
Motor Vehicle Theft
15
16
12
11
12
1
6
7
16
9
8
Arson
15
25
29
27
21
20
10
7
15
15
15
Santa Cruz County Jail Demographics
The county has 273,627 people confined with a jail population density of 426 prisoners per jail. When breaking down the population by gender, females are a minority compared to male prisoners, being 94,753 women and 94,878 men.
A Timeline of Yearly Data Pop Total from 2005-2015
Year
Total Population
2005
251,377
2006
251,616
2007
253,304
2008
256,520
2009
260,009
2010
263,213
2011
264,923
2012
266,632
2013
269,444
2014
271,804
2015
273,627
A Timeline of Yearly Female/Male Incarceration for the Years 2005-2015
Year
Male Population
Female Population
2005
91,608
89,533
2006
91,908
89,787
2007
92,375
90,299
2008
93,348
91,075
2009
94,236
92,197
2010
95,090
93,229
2011
95,299
93,779
2012
94,935
93,844
2013
95,170
94,365
2014
95,102
94,704
2015
94,878
94,753
A Timeline of Santa Cruz County Incarceration by Gender
Year
Male Rate
Female Rate
2005
565
76
2006
458
70
2007
490
71
2008
465
54
2009
456
52
2010
395
67
2011
445
33
2012
453
61
2013
475
78
2014
456
75
2015
396
45
Santa Cruz County Prison Records by Race & Ethnicity
41.25
%
White
1.06
%
Black
22.54
%
Latino
0.39
%
Asian
County Jail Statistics
The county has an arrest rate of 4,585 and a local jail rate of 216 inmates per year and a pretrial rate of 161 pre trials per 100,000 residents aged from 15 to 64. The jail admit rate for the area equals 2,047, which is lower compared to the statistics of 2005 - 6,707 incarcerations a year.
Local Jail, Pretrial and Admit Rates
2,047
Admit Rate
216
Local Jail Rate
161
Pretrial Rate
The average jail count for Santa Cruz is 410 incarcerations in a day. The numbers have decreased during the last 10 years, when there were on average 573 imprisonments a day.
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