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Whatcom County, WA jails hold prisoners after an arrest or people who have been transferred to the county from a detention center. Whatcom County holds 3 jails with a total of 142,446 inmates. These correctional facilities have private cells for extremely violent criminals or controversial suspects. Whatcom County jails are subject to health and medical restrictions and have to provide medical care to all its inmates.

Whatcom County Quick Facts

411

Whatcom County Population Total

65,216 / 84 / 55

Female Population, Rate & Count

64,648 / 418 / 27

Male Population, Rate & Count

$51,939

Median Income

3,401.7

Arrest Rate

276.3

Local Jail Rate

391

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

411

Population Total Confined

230

Pretrial Rate

5,710

Admit Rate

8,082

Admit Count

142,446

Yearly Prisoner Count

County Crimes by Type

Whatcom County is well known for its Property Crime Totals, it has a share of 43.85% of all the crimes committed in the county - 1,216 Property Crime Total cases. Murder And Nonnegligent Manslaughter is the least trendy crime of the area with only 0.14% out of all the crimes in Whatcom County.

Crimes % in 2016 - TOTAL ALL AGENCIES

The Timeline of the County Crime Trends

Whatcom County Jail Demographics

The county has 212,164 people confined with a jail population density of 68 prisoners per jail. When breaking down the population by gender, females are a majority compared to male prisoners, being 71,957 women and 70,489 men.

Whatcom County Prison Records by Race & Ethnicity

County Jail Statistics

The county has an arrest rate of 3,402 and a local jail rate of 276 inmates per year and a pretrial rate of 230 pre trials per 100,000 residents aged from 15 to 64. The jail admit rate for the area equals 5,710, which is higher compared to the statistics of 2005 - 3,935 incarcerations a year.

Local Jail, Pretrial and Admit Rates

The average jail count for Whatcom is 391 incarcerations in a day. The numbers have increased during the last 10 years, when there were on average 317 imprisonments a day.