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Wake County, NC jails hold prisoners after an arrest or people who have been transferred to the county from a detention center. Wake County holds 6 jails with a total of 697,353 inmates. These correctional facilities have private cells for extremely violent criminals or controversial suspects. Wake County jails are subject to health and medical restrictions and have to provide medical care to all its inmates.
Wake County Quick Facts
1,128
Wake County Population Total
267,046 / 52 / 138
Female Population, Rate & Count
259,624 / 404 / 1,049
Male Population, Rate & Count
$66,006
Median Income
4,915.5
Arrest Rate
153.1
Local Jail Rate
1,080
Local Jail Count (the average # of people in jail for one
day)
1,128
Population Total Confined
144
Pretrial Rate
5,006
Admit Rate
35,314
Admit Count
697,353
Yearly Prisoner Count
County Crimes by Type
Wake County is well known for its Property Crime Totals, it has a share of 45.34% of all the crimes committed in the county - 1,678 Property Crime Total cases. Revised Rape is the least trendy crime of the area with only 0.00% out of all the crimes in Wake County.
Crimes % in 2016 - TOTAL ALL AGENCIES
4.66
%
Violent Crime
0.13
%
Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter
0.67
%
Robbery
3.44
%
Aggravated Assault
45.16
%
Property Crime
15.66
%
Burglary
26.02
%
Larceny Theft
3.47
%
Motor Vehicle Theft
0.38
%
Arson
The Timeline of the County Crime Trends
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Violent Crime Total
133
208
217
165
202
229
184
170
210
178
137
Murder And Nonnegligent Manslaughter
0
4
6
3
6
6
2
2
6
8
1
Revised Rape
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Legacy Rape
38
22
29
15
21
25
21
23
19
15
9
Robbery
26
35
43
34
33
33
27
27
27
29
22
Aggravated Assault
69
147
139
113
142
165
134
118
158
126
105
Property Crime Total
2,342
2,828
2,944
1,903
2,497
2,673
2,893
2,462
2,295
2,054
1,774
Burglary
868
1,062
1,070
677
1,023
986
1,019
1,000
1,070
839
632
Larceny Theft
1,284
1,487
1,559
1,010
1,234
1,476
1,650
1,276
1,090
1,091
1,017
Motor Vehicle Theft
190
279
315
216
240
211
224
186
135
124
125
Arson
17
18
17
13
17
11
7
23
26
16
8
Wake County Jail Demographics
The county has 1,021,974 people confined with a jail population density of 845 prisoners per jail. When breaking down the population by gender, females are a majority compared to male prisoners, being 361,403 women and 335,950 men.
A Timeline of Yearly Data Pop Total from 2005-2015
Year
Total Population
2005
746,048
2006
784,038
2007
821,607
2008
856,492
2009
883,624
2010
906,908
2011
929,330
2012
952,611
2013
975,024
2014
998,691
2015
1,021,974
A Timeline of Yearly Female/Male Incarceration for the Years 2005-2015
Year
Male Population
Female Population
2005
259,624
267,046
2006
271,170
279,863
2007
281,536
293,786
2008
292,424
305,428
2009
300,363
315,044
2010
308,119
322,513
2011
315,225
331,022
2012
322,321
337,823
2013
329,563
345,054
2014
337,035
352,937
2015
335,950
361,403
A Timeline of Wake County Incarceration by Gender
Year
Male Rate
Female Rate
2005
404
52
2006
383
55
2007
422
49
2008
404
39
2009
408
39
2010
422
51
2011
350
36
2012
379
39
2013
326
40
2014
331
42
2015
306
35
Wake County Prison Records by Race & Ethnicity
42.77
%
White
14.78
%
Black
6.39
%
Latino
0.24
%
Asian
County Jail Statistics
The county has an arrest rate of 4,915 and a local jail rate of 153 inmates per year and a pretrial rate of 144 pre trials per 100,000 residents aged from 15 to 64. The jail admit rate for the area equals 5,006, which is higher compared to the statistics of 2005 - 4,297 incarcerations a year.
Local Jail, Pretrial and Admit Rates
5,006
Admit Rate
153
Local Jail Rate
144
Pretrial Rate
The average jail count for Wake is 1,080 incarcerations in a day. The numbers have decreased during the last 10 years, when there were on average 1,177 imprisonments a day.
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