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Wilkes County, NC jails hold prisoners after an arrest or people who have been transferred to the county from a detention center. Wilkes County holds 2 jails with a total of 43,105 inmates. These correctional facilities have private cells for extremely violent criminals or controversial suspects. Wilkes County jails are subject to health and medical restrictions and have to provide medical care to all its inmates.
Wilkes County Quick Facts
119
Wilkes County Population Total
22,369 / 67 / 15
Female Population, Rate & Count
22,617 / 380 / 86
Male Population, Rate & Count
$33,159
Median Income
5,551.3
Arrest Rate
273.3
Local Jail Rate
119
Local Jail Count (the average # of people in jail for one
day)
119
Population Total Confined
202
Pretrial Rate
11,640
Admit Rate
5,069
Admit Count
43,105
Yearly Prisoner Count
County Crimes by Type
Wilkes County is well known for its Property Crime Totals, it has a share of 43.17% of all the crimes committed in the county - 740 Property Crime Total cases. Revised Rape is the least trendy crime of the area with only 0.00% out of all the crimes in Wilkes County.
Crimes % in 2016 - TOTAL ALL AGENCIES
6.68
%
Violent Crime
0.12
%
Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter
0.70
%
Robbery
5.40
%
Aggravated Assault
42.97
%
Property Crime
19.16
%
Burglary
21.66
%
Larceny Theft
2.15
%
Motor Vehicle Theft
0.70
%
Arson
The Timeline of the County Crime Trends
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Violent Crime Total
135
90
171
174
133
113
151
122
109
110
111
Murder And Nonnegligent Manslaughter
1
3
1
2
3
2
2
2
5
3
2
Revised Rape
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Legacy Rape
7
3
5
3
7
3
2
3
0
3
6
Robbery
15
7
18
18
16
12
16
15
12
7
9
Aggravated Assault
112
77
147
151
107
96
131
102
92
97
94
Property Crime Total
1,082
1,038
1,221
1,332
1,371
1,181
1,553
1,360
1,192
1,096
813
Burglary
355
424
461
555
668
521
616
565
517
474
352
Larceny Theft
643
531
675
689
604
602
844
734
624
567
427
Motor Vehicle Theft
84
83
85
88
99
58
93
61
51
55
34
Arson
5
4
7
4
3
6
4
4
11
15
12
Wilkes County Jail Demographics
The county has 68,519 people confined with a jail population density of 57 prisoners per jail. When breaking down the population by gender, females are a minority compared to male prisoners, being 21,320 women and 21,785 men.
A Timeline of Yearly Data Pop Total from 2005-2015
Year
Total Population
2005
68,104
2006
68,489
2007
68,966
2008
69,317
2009
69,258
2010
69,223
2011
69,181
2012
69,210
2013
69,012
2014
68,838
2015
68,519
A Timeline of Yearly Female/Male Incarceration for the Years 2005-2015
Year
Male Population
Female Population
2005
22,617
22,369
2006
22,751
22,335
2007
22,794
22,437
2008
22,730
22,370
2009
22,549
22,157
2010
22,574
22,131
2011
22,309
22,027
2012
22,137
21,778
2013
21,976
21,574
2014
21,841
21,461
2015
21,785
21,320
A Timeline of Wilkes County Incarceration by Gender
Year
Male Rate
Female Rate
2005
380
67
2006
368
76
2007
358
84
2008
349
92
2009
341
102
2010
331
110
2011
325
119
2012
317
129
2013
309
139
2014
309
139
2015
309
139
Wilkes County Prison Records by Race & Ethnicity
55.69
%
White
2.98
%
Black
3.56
%
Latino
0.13
%
Asian
County Jail Statistics
The county has an arrest rate of 5,551 and a local jail rate of 273 inmates per year and a pretrial rate of 202 pre trials per 100,000 residents aged from 15 to 64. The jail admit rate for the area equals 11,640, which is higher compared to the statistics of 2005 - 6,949 incarcerations a year.
Local Jail, Pretrial and Admit Rates
11,640
Admit Rate
273
Local Jail Rate
202
Pretrial Rate
The average jail count for Wilkes is 119 incarcerations in a day. The numbers have increased during the last 10 years, when there were on average 95 imprisonments a day.
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