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Buncombe County, NC jails hold prisoners after an arrest or people who have been transferred to the county from a detention center. Buncombe County holds 3 jails with a total of 165,051 inmates. These correctional facilities have private cells for extremely violent criminals or controversial suspects. Buncombe County jails are subject to health and medical restrictions and have to provide medical care to all its inmates.
Buncombe County Quick Facts
454
Buncombe County Population Total
76,773 / 90 / 69
Female Population, Rate & Count
72,767 / 492 / 358
Male Population, Rate & Count
$44,713
Median Income
4,369.0
Arrest Rate
240.6
Local Jail Rate
398
Local Jail Count (the average # of people in jail for one
day)
454
Population Total Confined
188
Pretrial Rate
8,032
Admit Rate
13,290
Admit Count
165,051
Yearly Prisoner Count
County Crimes by Type
Buncombe County is well known for its Property Crime Totals, it has a share of 46.10% of all the crimes committed in the county - 1,826 Property Crime Total cases. Revised Rape is the least trendy crime of the area with only 0.00% out of all the crimes in Buncombe County.
Crimes % in 2016 - TOTAL ALL AGENCIES
3.90
%
Violent Crime
0.13
%
Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter
0.71
%
Robbery
2.85
%
Aggravated Assault
45.99
%
Property Crime
16.78
%
Burglary
25.67
%
Larceny Theft
3.55
%
Motor Vehicle Theft
0.20
%
Arson
The Timeline of the County Crime Trends
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Violent Crime Total
165
220
185
194
167
149
155
144
116
91
129
Murder And Nonnegligent Manslaughter
4
1
6
5
5
3
3
4
10
3
4
Revised Rape
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Legacy Rape
12
17
19
24
20
12
15
18
18
13
13
Robbery
30
48
32
50
33
33
33
34
25
22
26
Aggravated Assault
119
154
128
115
109
101
104
88
63
53
86
Property Crime Total
2,610
2,717
2,540
2,462
2,197
1,940
2,059
1,954
2,013
1,750
2,008
Burglary
980
1,069
952
877
879
831
891
812
897
698
708
Larceny Theft
1,369
1,389
1,373
1,356
1,151
949
998
960
964
907
1,172
Motor Vehicle Theft
261
259
215
229
167
160
170
182
152
145
128
Arson
9
11
12
7
8
8
10
11
15
20
19
Buncombe County Jail Demographics
The county has 252,808 people confined with a jail population density of 252 prisoners per jail. When breaking down the population by gender, females are a majority compared to male prisoners, being 85,215 women and 79,836 men.
A Timeline of Yearly Data Pop Total from 2005-2015
Year
Total Population
2005
221,642
2006
226,524
2007
230,766
2008
233,772
2009
236,349
2010
238,832
2011
241,416
2012
244,363
2013
247,846
2014
250,539
2015
252,808
A Timeline of Yearly Female/Male Incarceration for the Years 2005-2015
Year
Male Population
Female Population
2005
72,767
76,773
2006
74,568
78,359
2007
75,768
79,910
2008
76,793
80,717
2009
77,450
81,380
2010
78,290
81,869
2011
78,812
82,752
2012
78,992
83,109
2013
79,766
83,969
2014
80,192
84,514
2015
79,836
85,215
A Timeline of Buncombe County Incarceration by Gender
Year
Male Rate
Female Rate
2005
492
90
2006
483
86
2007
477
82
2008
474
79
2009
472
76
2010
469
74
2011
469
71
2012
470
68
2013
468
66
2014
421
66
2015
378
67
Buncombe County Prison Records by Race & Ethnicity
55.68
%
White
4.43
%
Black
3.99
%
Latino
0.28
%
Asian
County Jail Statistics
The county has an arrest rate of 4,369 and a local jail rate of 241 inmates per year and a pretrial rate of 188 pre trials per 100,000 residents aged from 15 to 64. The jail admit rate for the area equals 8,032, which is higher compared to the statistics of 2005 - 7,671 incarcerations a year.
Local Jail, Pretrial and Admit Rates
8,032
Admit Rate
241
Local Jail Rate
188
Pretrial Rate
The average jail count for Buncombe is 398 incarcerations in a day. The numbers have increased during the last 10 years, when there were on average 350 imprisonments a day.
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