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Polk County, FL jails hold prisoners after an arrest or people who have been transferred to the county from a detention center. Polk County holds 6 jails with a total of 395,900 inmates. These correctional facilities have private cells for extremely violent criminals or controversial suspects. Polk County jails are subject to health and medical restrictions and have to provide medical care to all its inmates.
Polk County Quick Facts
2,423
Polk County Population Total
172,808 / 258 / 446
Female Population, Rate & Count
169,725 / 1,432 / 2,431
Male Population, Rate & Count
$43,113
Median Income
598.8
Local Jail Rate
2,395
Local Jail Count (the average # of people in jail for one
day)
2,423
Population Total Confined
272
Pretrial Rate
7,077
Admit Rate
28,309
Admit Count
395,900
Yearly Prisoner Count
County Crimes by Type
Polk County is well known for its Property Crime Totals, it has a share of 41.21% of all the crimes committed in the county - 6,506 Property Crime Total cases. Murder And Nonnegligent Manslaughter is the least trendy crime of the area with only 0.09% out of all the crimes in Polk County.
Crimes % in 2016 - TOTAL ALL AGENCIES
8.70
%
Violent Crime
0.09
%
Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter
0.88
%
Revised Rape
0.86
%
Robbery
6.88
%
Aggravated Assault
41.21
%
Property Crime
11.07
%
Burglary
26.12
%
Larceny Theft
4.02
%
Motor Vehicle Theft
0.16
%
Arson
The Timeline of the County Crime Trends
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Violent Crime Total
1,480
1,671
1,676
1,525
1,511
1,308
1,288
1,140
1,326
1,237
1,291
Murder And Nonnegligent Manslaughter
6
15
16
28
16
12
12
19
8
4
16
Revised Rape
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
73
70
85
Legacy Rape
120
129
103
86
104
82
70
59
0
0
0
Robbery
191
279
301
254
195
202
185
154
147
159
136
Aggravated Assault
1,163
1,248
1,256
1,157
1,196
1,012
1,021
908
1,098
1,004
1,054
Property Crime Total
9,319
9,103
10,384
11,265
10,648
10,070
9,473
8,754
7,922
7,308
6,791
Burglary
2,839
3,066
3,461
3,874
3,975
3,377
3,274
3,186
2,693
2,466
1,962
Larceny Theft
5,599
5,251
6,038
6,537
6,074
6,159
5,779
5,098
4,689
4,266
4,251
Motor Vehicle Theft
881
786
885
854
599
534
420
470
540
576
578
Arson
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
74
79
51
86
Polk County Jail Demographics
The county has 649,425 people confined with a jail population density of 222 prisoners per jail. When breaking down the population by gender, females are a majority compared to male prisoners, being 202,674 women and 193,226 men.
A Timeline of Yearly Data Pop Total from 2005-2015
Year
Total Population
2005
547,373
2006
568,324
2007
585,982
2008
594,801
2009
598,683
2010
603,359
2011
609,696
2012
615,764
2013
623,159
2014
634,638
2015
649,425
A Timeline of Yearly Female/Male Incarceration for the Years 2005-2015
Year
Male Population
Female Population
2005
169,725
172,808
2006
176,742
180,287
2007
182,375
186,401
2008
184,528
188,754
2009
185,088
189,761
2010
185,979
191,065
2011
188,011
193,343
2012
188,556
193,577
2013
189,741
194,814
2014
192,876
198,020
2015
193,226
202,674
A Timeline of Polk County Incarceration by Gender
Year
Male Rate
Female Rate
2005
1,432
258
2006
1,218
229
2007
1,113
227
2008
1,079
200
2009
1,041
193
2010
1,006
180
2011
954
185
2012
1,064
210
2013
1,033
198
2014
1,076
228
2015
1,024
204
Polk County Prison Records by Race & Ethnicity
37.04
%
White
9.84
%
Black
13.16
%
Latino
0.21
%
Asian
County Jail Statistics
The county has a local jail rate of 599 inmates per year and a pretrial rate of 272 pre trials per 100,000 residents aged from 15 to 64. The jail admit rate for the area equals 7,077, which is lower compared to the statistics of 2005 - 9,058 incarcerations a year.
Local Jail, Pretrial and Admit Rates
7,077
Admit Rate
599
Local Jail Rate
272
Pretrial Rate
The average jail count for Polk is 2,395 incarcerations in a day. The numbers have decreased during the last 10 years, when there were on average 2,850 imprisonments a day.
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