Essex County, NJ Inmate Search

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Essex County, NJ jails hold prisoners after an arrest or people who have been transferred to the county from a detention center. Essex County holds 8 jails with a total of 535,346 inmates. These correctional facilities have private cells for extremely violent criminals or controversial suspects. Essex County jails are subject to health and medical restrictions and have to provide medical care to all its inmates.

Essex County Quick Facts

3,058

Essex County Population Total

273,622 / 64 / 176

Female Population, Rate & Count

253,655 / 658 / 1,669

Male Population, Rate & Count

$55,095

Median Income

4,900.6

Arrest Rate

385.5

Local Jail Rate

2,065

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

3,058

Population Total Confined

189

Pretrial Rate

3,166

Admit Rate

16,960

Admit Count

535,346

Yearly Prisoner Count

County Crimes by Type

Essex County is well known for its Violent Crime Totals, it has a share of 27.30% of all the crimes committed in the county - 95 Violent Crime Total cases. Revised Rape is the least trendy crime of the area with only 0.00% out of all the crimes in Essex County.

Crimes % in 2016 - TOTAL ALL AGENCIES

The Timeline of the County Crime Trends

Essex County Jail Demographics

The county has 795,039 people confined with a jail population density of 4,245 prisoners per jail. When breaking down the population by gender, females are a majority compared to male prisoners, being 275,254 women and 260,092 men.

Essex County Prison Records by Race & Ethnicity

County Jail Statistics

The county has an arrest rate of 4,901 and a local jail rate of 385 inmates per year and a pretrial rate of 189 pre trials per 100,000 residents aged from 15 to 64. The jail admit rate for the area equals 3,166, which is lower compared to the statistics of 2005 - 4,954 incarcerations a year.

Local Jail, Pretrial and Admit Rates

The average jail count for Essex is 2,065 incarcerations in a day. The numbers have increased during the last 10 years, when there were on average 1,943 imprisonments a day.