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Imprisonment rate per 100,000 residents: U.S. states ranked (2023)

Measure: Imprisonment rate per 100,000 residents. All 50 states with data in Prisoners and imprisonment rates by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2023.

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Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated
2026-10-30
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National value: 360 (United States).

Washington: 181Idaho: 490Montana: 438North Dakota: 240Minnesota: 152Michigan: 328Ohio: 394Pennsylvania: 300New York: 167Vermont: 124New Hampshire: 151Maine: 119Arizona: 448California: 246New Mexico: 259Texas: 477Louisiana: 617Mississippi: 652Alabama: 394Florida: 382Georgia: 449South Carolina: 299North Carolina: 275Virginia: 314District of Columbia: not in this tableMaryland: 261Delaware: 275New Jersey: 125Connecticut: 183Rhode Island: 122Massachusetts: 96Oregon: 291Utah: 186Wyoming: 378Nevada: 327Colorado: 290South Dakota: 405Nebraska: 295Kansas: 305Oklahoma: 545Iowa: 274Missouri: 385Wisconsin: 346Illinois: 238Kentucky: 423Arkansas: 596Tennessee: 341West Virginia: 328Indiana: 351Alaska: 202Hawaii: 165

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 96 to 183
  • Group 2: 183 to 275
  • Group 3: 275 to 328
  • Group 4: 328 to 423
  • Highest: 423 to 652
The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.

1Mississippi652
2Louisiana617
3Arkansas596
4Oklahoma545
5Idaho490
6Texas477
7Georgia449
8Arizona448
9Montana438
10Kentucky423
11South Dakota405
12Alabama394
12Ohio394
14Missouri385
15Florida382
16Wyoming378
17Indiana351
18Wisconsin346
19Tennessee341
20Michigan328
20West Virginia328
22Nevada327
23Virginia314
24Kansas305
25Pennsylvania300
26South Carolina299
27Nebraska295
28Oregon291
29Colorado290
30Delaware275
30North Carolina275
32Iowa274
33Maryland261
34New Mexico259
35California246
36North Dakota240
37Illinois238
38Alaska202
39Utah186
40Connecticut183
41Washington181
42New York167
43Hawaii165
44Minnesota152
45New Hampshire151
46New Jersey125
47Vermont124
48Rhode Island122
49Maine119
50Massachusetts96

Source: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2023 – Statistical Tables (NCJ 310197), tables 2 and 7. Reference period: 2023.

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U.S. states ranked by imprisonment rate per 100,000 residents (2023). Data: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2023 – Statistical Tables (NCJ 310197), tables 2 and 7; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-30. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-imprisonment-rate-per-100000-residents/

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