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Mercer County, WV jails hold prisoners after an arrest or people who have been transferred to the county from a detention center. Mercer County holds 0 jails with a total of 38,708 inmates. These correctional facilities have private cells for extremely violent criminals or controversial suspects. Mercer County jails are subject to health and medical restrictions and have to provide medical care to all its inmates.

Mercer County Quick Facts

133

Mercer County Population Total

20,389 / 10 / 2

Female Population, Rate & Count

19,675 / 10 / 2

Male Population, Rate & Count

$34,842

Median Income

3,361.8

Arrest Rate

324.0

Local Jail Rate

124

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

133

Population Total Confined

208

Pretrial Rate

4,215

Admit Rate

1,614

Admit Count

38,708

Yearly Prisoner Count

County Crimes by Type

Mercer County is well known for its Property Crime Totals, it has a share of 41.18% of all the crimes committed in the county - 376 Property Crime Total cases. Arson is the least trendy crime of the area with only 0.11% out of all the crimes in Mercer County.

Crimes % in 2016 - TOTAL ALL AGENCIES

The Timeline of the County Crime Trends

Mercer County Jail Demographics

The county has 61,043 people confined with a jail population density of 91 prisoners per jail. When breaking down the population by gender, females are a majority compared to male prisoners, being 19,761 women and 18,947 men.

Mercer County Prison Records by Race & Ethnicity

County Jail Statistics

The county has an arrest rate of 3,362 and a local jail rate of 324 inmates per year and a pretrial rate of 208 pre trials per 100,000 residents aged from 15 to 64. The jail admit rate for the area equals 4,215, which is lower compared to the statistics of 2005 - 5,336 incarcerations a year.

Local Jail, Pretrial and Admit Rates

The average jail count for Mercer is 124 incarcerations in a day. The numbers have increased during the last 10 years, when there were on average 5 imprisonments a day.