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Cook County, IL jails hold prisoners after an arrest or people who have been transferred to the county from a detention center. Cook County holds 12 jails with a total of 3,561,496 inmates. These correctional facilities have private cells for extremely violent criminals or controversial suspects. Cook County jails are subject to health and medical restrictions and have to provide medical care to all its inmates.
Cook County Quick Facts
8,515
Cook County Population Total
1,791,218 / 55 / 994
Female Population, Rate & Count
1,729,680 / 513 / 8,878
Male Population, Rate & Count
$54,548
Median Income
2,252.1
Arrest Rate
239.6
Local Jail Rate
8,515
Local Jail Count (the average # of people in jail for one
day)
8,515
Population Total Confined
145
Pretrial Rate
2,611
Admit Rate
92,795
Admit Count
3,561,496
Yearly Prisoner Count
County Crimes by Type
Cook County is well known for its Property Crime Totals, it has a share of 39.87% of all the crimes committed in the county - 689 Property Crime Total cases. Murder And Nonnegligent Manslaughter is the least trendy crime of the area with only 0.41% out of all the crimes in Cook County.
Crimes % in 2016 - TOTAL ALL AGENCIES
9.66
%
Violent Crime
0.41
%
Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter
1.68
%
Revised Rape
1.27
%
Robbery
6.31
%
Aggravated Assault
39.87
%
Property Crime
9.38
%
Burglary
25.87
%
Larceny Theft
4.63
%
Motor Vehicle Theft
0.93
%
Arson
The Timeline of the County Crime Trends
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Violent Crime Total
313
267
187
203
188
Murder And Nonnegligent Manslaughter
2
1
0
0
0
Revised Rape
0
0
0
31
25
Legacy Rape
36
27
23
0
0
Robbery
33
40
39
44
42
Aggravated Assault
242
199
125
128
121
Property Crime Total
1,279
1,166
764
1,074
941
Burglary
395
384
229
289
272
Larceny Theft
776
684
480
693
638
Motor Vehicle Theft
108
98
55
92
31
Arson
16
16
18
14
9
Cook County Jail Demographics
The county has 5,224,823 people confined with a jail population density of 3,759 prisoners per jail. When breaking down the population by gender, females are a majority compared to male prisoners, being 1,805,817 women and 1,755,679 men.
A Timeline of Yearly Data Pop Total from 2005-2015
Year
Total Population
2005
5,207,615
2006
5,165,495
2007
5,154,235
2008
5,161,831
2009
5,181,728
2010
5,198,716
2011
5,214,988
2012
5,232,340
2013
5,246,635
2014
5,246,456
2015
5,224,823
A Timeline of Yearly Female/Male Incarceration for the Years 2005-2015
Year
Male Population
Female Population
2005
1,729,680
1,791,218
2006
1,725,619
1,788,295
2007
1,726,356
1,790,713
2008
1,733,549
1,796,816
2009
1,741,017
1,808,588
2010
1,748,074
1,815,314
2011
1,754,721
1,821,547
2012
1,756,708
1,823,064
2013
1,759,915
1,824,178
2014
1,757,183
1,820,396
2015
1,755,679
1,805,817
A Timeline of Cook County Incarceration by Gender
Year
Male Rate
Female Rate
2005
513
55
2006
495
54
2007
490
53
2008
523
51
2009
520
38
2010
520
38
2011
506
43
2012
515
44
2013
476
78
2014
450
55
2015
425
31
Cook County Prison Records by Race & Ethnicity
29.64
%
White
16.07
%
Black
16.91
%
Latino
0.13
%
Asian
County Jail Statistics
The county has an arrest rate of 2,252 and a local jail rate of 240 inmates per year and a pretrial rate of 145 pre trials per 100,000 residents aged from 15 to 64. The jail admit rate for the area equals 2,611, which is lower compared to the statistics of 2005 - 3,340 incarcerations a year.
Local Jail, Pretrial and Admit Rates
2,611
Admit Rate
240
Local Jail Rate
145
Pretrial Rate
The average jail count for Cook is 8,515 incarcerations in a day. The numbers have decreased during the last 10 years, when there were on average 10,278 imprisonments a day.
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