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Amherst County Quick Facts
County Crimes by Type
- Crimes % in 2016 - TOTAL ALL AGENCIES
- The Timeline of the County Crime Trends
Amherst County Jail Demographics
County Jail Statistics
Amherst County, VA Jails

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Amherst County, VA jails hold prisoners after an arrest or people who have been transferred to the county from a detention center. Amherst County holds 1 jails with a total of 20,334 inmates. These correctional facilities have private cells for extremely violent criminals or controversial suspects. Amherst County jails are subject to health and medical restrictions and have to provide medical care to all its inmates.

Amherst County Quick Facts

Amherst County Population Total

11,206 / 89 / 1

Female Population, Rate & Count

10,203 / 774 / 79

Male Population, Rate & Count

$44,945

Median Income

2,309.2

Arrest Rate

405.4

Local Jail Rate

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

Population Total Confined

Pretrial Rate

7,128

Admit Rate

1,512

Admit Count

20,334

Yearly Prisoner Count

County Crimes by Type

Amherst County is well known for its Property Crime Totals, it has a share of 44.71% of all the crimes committed in the county - 279 Property Crime Total cases. Murder And Nonnegligent Manslaughter is the least trendy crime of the area with only 0.16% out of all the crimes in Amherst County.

Crimes % in 2016 - TOTAL ALL AGENCIES

5.13 %

Violent Crime

0.16 %

Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter

2.08 %

Revised Rape

0.96 %

Robbery

1.92 %

Aggravated Assault

44.71 %

Property Crime

5.61 %

Burglary

35.58 %

Larceny Theft

3.53 %

Motor Vehicle Theft

0.32 %

Arson

The Timeline of the County Crime Trends

	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Violent Crime Total	38	39	49	32	35	29	28	15	32	37	25
Murder And Nonnegligent Manslaughter	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	1
Revised Rape	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	17	8
Legacy Rape	5	10	10	7	3	7	7	7	0	0	0
Robbery	8	8	17	6	8	3	2	1	2	4	5
Aggravated Assault	24	21	21	18	24	19	19	7	20	14	11
Property Crime Total	355	392	463	529	511	461	525	504	372	362	311
Burglary	52	60	40	59	81	53	63	125	49	40	39
Larceny Theft	280	312	395	435	403	388	441	365	298	303	251
Motor Vehicle Theft	23	20	28	35	27	20	21	14	25	19	21
Arson	1	6	5	7	3	3	2	2	1	0	3

Amherst County Jail Demographics

The county has 31,636 people confined with a jail population density of 43 prisoners per jail. When breaking down the population by gender, females are a majority compared to male prisoners, being 10,334 women and 10,000 men.

A Timeline of Yearly Data Pop Total from 2005-2015

Year	Total Population
2005	31,955
2006	32,094
2007	32,203
2008	32,510
2009	32,447
2010	32,388
2011	32,120
2012	32,445
2013	32,193
2014	32,041
2015	31,636

A Timeline of Yearly Female/Male Incarceration for the Years 2005-2015

Year	Male Population	Female Population
2005	10,203	11,206
2006	10,256	11,224
2007	10,223	11,261
2008	10,343	11,237
2009	10,266	11,210
2010	10,245	11,205
2011	10,129	11,084
2012	10,230	11,095
2013	10,096	10,988
2014	9,982	10,824
2015	10,000	10,334

A Timeline of Amherst County Incarceration by Gender

Year	Male Rate	Female Rate
2005	774	89
2006	536	116
2007	724	160
2008	773	116
2009	896	125
2010	576	62
2011	790	90
2012	790	90
2013	790	90
2014	790	90
2015	790	90

Amherst County Prison Records by Race & Ethnicity

48.61 %

White

13.04 %

Black

1.50 %

Latino

0.52 %

Asian

County Jail Statistics

The county has an arrest rate of 2,309 and a local jail rate of 405 inmates per year and a pretrial rate of 99 pre trials per 100,000 residents aged from 15 to 64. The jail admit rate for the area equals 7,128, which is higher compared to the statistics of 2005 - 2,436 incarcerations a year.

Local Jail, Pretrial and Admit Rates