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Polk County, IA jails hold prisoners after an arrest or people who have been transferred to the county from a detention center. Polk County holds 3 jails with a total of 309,459 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

932

Polk County Population Total

136,784 / 56 / 76

Female Population, Rate & Count

133,579 / 414 / 553

Male Population, Rate & Count

$59,018

Median Income

3,514.0

Arrest Rate

265.3

Local Jail Rate

826

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

932

Population Total Confined

176

Pretrial Rate

5,557

Admit Rate

17,301

Admit Count

309,459

Yearly Prisoner Count

County Crimes by Type

Polk County is well known for its Property Crime Totals, it has a share of 44.21% of all the crimes committed in the county - 714 Property Crime Total cases. Murder And Nonnegligent Manslaughter is the least trendy crime of the area with only 0.12% out of all the crimes in Polk County.

Crimes % in 2016 - TOTAL ALL AGENCIES

The Timeline of the County Crime Trends

Polk County Jail Demographics

The county has 466,688 people confined with a jail population density of 543 prisoners per jail. When breaking down the population by gender, females are a majority compared to male prisoners, being 156,553 women and 152,906 men.

Polk County Prison Records by Race & Ethnicity

County Jail Statistics

The county has an arrest rate of 3,514 and a local jail rate of 265 inmates per year and a pretrial rate of 176 pre trials per 100,000 residents aged from 15 to 64. The jail admit rate for the area equals 5,557, which is lower compared to the statistics of 2005 - 7,978 incarcerations a year.

Local Jail, Pretrial and Admit Rates

The average jail count for Polk is 826 incarcerations in a day. The numbers have increased during the last 10 years, when there were on average 483 imprisonments a day.