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Non-U.S. citizen prisoners: U.S. states ranked (2023)

Measure: Non-U.S. citizen prisoners. All 47 states with data in Non-citizen prisoners by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2023.

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Data last updated
2026-11-03
Download full table CSVSource: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (opens in a new tab)
Washington: 599Idaho: 184Montana: 34North Dakota: 32Minnesota: 342Michigan: 384Ohio: 454Pennsylvania: 187New York: 1,296Vermont: 94New Hampshire: 59Maine: 30Arizona: 2,440California: not in this tableNew Mexico: 114Texas: 8,090Louisiana: 322Mississippi: 23Alabama: 1,108Florida: 5,229Georgia: 2,520South Carolina: 319North Carolina: 1,223Virginia: 1,242District of Columbia: not in this tableMaryland: 836Delaware: 59New Jersey: 916Connecticut: 335Rhode Island: not in this tableMassachusetts: 736Oregon: not in this tableUtah: 179Wyoming: 25Nevada: 805Colorado: 672South Dakota: 91Nebraska: 218Kansas: 330Oklahoma: 405Iowa: 253Missouri: 177Wisconsin: 433Illinois: 750Kentucky: 179Arkansas: 348Tennessee: 506West Virginia: 9Indiana: 524Alaska: 128Hawaii: 256

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 9 to 94
  • Group 2: 94 to 253
  • Group 3: 253 to 433
  • Group 4: 433 to 836
  • Highest: 836 to 8,090
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.

1Texas8,090
2Florida5,229
3Georgia2,520
4Arizona2,440
5New York1,296
6Virginia1,242
7North Carolina1,223
8Alabama1,108
9New Jersey916
10Maryland836
11Nevada805
12Illinois750
13Massachusetts736
14Colorado672
15Washington599
16Indiana524
17Tennessee506
18Ohio454
19Wisconsin433
20Oklahoma405
21Michigan384
22Arkansas348
23Minnesota342
24Connecticut335
25Kansas330
26Louisiana322
27South Carolina319
28Hawaii256
29Iowa253
30Nebraska218
31Pennsylvania187
32Idaho184
33Kentucky179
33Utah179
35Missouri177
36Alaska128
37New Mexico114
38Vermont94
39South Dakota91
40Delaware59
40New Hampshire59
42Montana34
43North Dakota32
44Maine30
45Wyoming25
46Mississippi23
47West Virginia9

Source: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2023 – Statistical Tables (NCJ 310197), table 22. Reference period: 2023.

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U.S. states ranked by non-U.S. citizen prisoners (2023). Data: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2023 – Statistical Tables (NCJ 310197), table 22; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-03. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-non-u-s-citizen-prisoners/

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