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Shelby County, TN jails hold prisoners after an arrest or people who have been transferred to the county from a detention center. Shelby County holds 9 jails with a total of 627,488 inmates. These correctional facilities have private cells for extremely violent criminals or controversial suspects. Shelby County jails are subject to health and medical restrictions and have to provide medical care to all its inmates.
Shelby County Quick Facts
4,408
Shelby County Population Total
319,179 / 145 / 462
Female Population, Rate & Count
295,524 / 1,628 / 4,811
Male Population, Rate & Count
$46,250
Median Income
6,390.9
Arrest Rate
690.7
Local Jail Rate
4,320
Local Jail Count (the average # of people in jail for one
day)
4,408
Population Total Confined
368
Pretrial Rate
7,899
Admit Rate
49,406
Admit Count
627,488
Yearly Prisoner Count
County Crimes by Type
Shelby County is well known for its Property Crime Totals, it has a share of 40.10% of all the crimes committed in the county - 2,490 Property Crime Total cases. Arson is the least trendy crime of the area with only 0.24% out of all the crimes in Shelby County.
Crimes % in 2016 - TOTAL ALL AGENCIES
9.78
%
Violent Crime
0.29
%
Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter
0.45
%
Revised Rape
1.69
%
Robbery
7.34
%
Aggravated Assault
40.10
%
Property Crime
10.74
%
Burglary
26.27
%
Larceny Theft
3.09
%
Motor Vehicle Theft
0.24
%
Arson
The Timeline of the County Crime Trends
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Violent Crime Total
480
523
489
488
461
474
500
601
507
588
464
Murder And Nonnegligent Manslaughter
5
3
6
4
6
6
4
1
3
6
1
Revised Rape
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
42
29
23
Legacy Rape
34
19
32
38
36
39
35
37
0
0
0
Robbery
54
71
80
82
76
69
55
79
75
82
85
Aggravated Assault
387
430
371
364
343
360
406
484
387
471
355
Property Crime Total
3,255
3,628
3,555
3,696
3,466
3,538
3,327
3,073
2,964
3,008
2,653
Burglary
1,098
1,294
1,122
1,295
1,270
1,291
1,123
945
889
772
789
Larceny Theft
1,828
2,015
2,140
2,155
1,958
1,987
1,979
1,966
1,928
2,063
1,692
Motor Vehicle Theft
329
319
293
246
238
260
225
162
147
173
172
Arson
24
10
22
21
24
16
8
11
14
25
10
Shelby County Jail Demographics
The county has 936,131 people confined with a jail population density of 820 prisoners per jail. When breaking down the population by gender, females are a majority compared to male prisoners, being 326,362 women and 301,126 men.
A Timeline of Yearly Data Pop Total from 2005-2015
Year
Total Population
2005
913,201
2006
920,106
2007
921,119
2008
920,685
2009
922,541
2010
928,786
2011
933,756
2012
939,942
2013
939,365
2014
938,803
2015
936,131
A Timeline of Yearly Female/Male Incarceration for the Years 2005-2015
Year
Male Population
Female Population
2005
295,524
319,179
2006
297,773
323,076
2007
299,544
324,432
2008
298,789
325,234
2009
300,407
326,748
2010
302,819
329,450
2011
304,544
331,480
2012
306,067
332,100
2013
303,249
330,856
2014
301,346
329,128
2015
301,126
326,362
A Timeline of Shelby County Incarceration by Gender
Year
Male Rate
Female Rate
2005
1,628
145
2006
1,659
147
2007
1,744
160
2008
1,795
172
2009
1,816
155
2010
1,678
146
2011
816
76
2012
1,812
189
2013
1,361
109
2014
730
69
2015
1,353
117
Shelby County Prison Records by Race & Ethnicity
24.63
%
White
36.53
%
Black
3.60
%
Latino
0.15
%
Asian
County Jail Statistics
The county has an arrest rate of 6,391 and a local jail rate of 691 inmates per year and a pretrial rate of 368 pre trials per 100,000 residents aged from 15 to 64. The jail admit rate for the area equals 7,899, which is lower compared to the statistics of 2005 - 7,982 incarcerations a year.
Local Jail, Pretrial and Admit Rates
7,899
Admit Rate
691
Local Jail Rate
368
Pretrial Rate
The average jail count for Shelby is 4,320 incarcerations in a day. The numbers have decreased during the last 10 years, when there were on average 5,049 imprisonments a day.
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