Philadelphia County, PA Inmate Search

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Philadelphia County, PA jails hold prisoners after an arrest or people who have been transferred to the county from a detention center. Philadelphia County holds 7 jails with a total of 1,073,621 inmates. These correctional facilities have private cells for extremely violent criminals or controversial suspects. Philadelphia County jails are subject to health and medical restrictions and have to provide medical care to all its inmates.

Philadelphia County Quick Facts

7,938

Philadelphia County Population Total

530,476 / 157 / 834

Female Population, Rate & Count

475,190 / 1,459 / 6,935

Male Population, Rate & Count

$37,192

Median Income

5,695.2

Arrest Rate

739.2

Local Jail Rate

7,938

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

7,938

Population Total Confined

572

Pretrial Rate

2,850

Admit Rate

30,601

Admit Count

1,073,621

Yearly Prisoner Count

County Crimes by Type

The Timeline of the County Crime Trends

Philadelphia County Jail Demographics

The county has 1,564,964 people confined with a jail population density of 8,008 prisoners per jail. When breaking down the population by gender, females are a majority compared to male prisoners, being 560,944 women and 512,677 men.

Philadelphia County Prison Records by Race & Ethnicity

County Jail Statistics

The county has an arrest rate of 5,695 and a local jail rate of 739 inmates per year and a pretrial rate of 572 pre trials per 100,000 residents aged from 15 to 64. The jail admit rate for the area equals 2,850, which is lower compared to the statistics of 2005 - 3,469 incarcerations a year.

Local Jail, Pretrial and Admit Rates

The average jail count for Philadelphia is 7,938 incarcerations in a day. The numbers have increased during the last 10 years, when there were on average 7,699 imprisonments a day.