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Custody population as % of lowest capacity: U.S. states ranked (2023)

Measure: Custody population as % of lowest capacity. All 47 states with data in Prison capacity and crowding by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2023.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-03

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Small states, hard to see on the map:

RI 61.8
DE 111.8
NJ 89.7
MD 85.7
MA 80
VT 78.5
NH 107.7

Lowest: 61.8 to 81.2
Group 2: 81.2 to 88
Group 3: 88 to 100.9
Group 4: 100.9 to 115.9
Highest: 115.9 to 173.7

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.


1	Alabama	173.7
2	Montana	145.7
3	Nebraska	145
4	South Dakota	133.2
5	Colorado	130.3
5	Wisconsin	130.3
7	Iowa	126.8
8	California	124.7
9	Hawaii	120.4
10	Nevada	115.9
11	Florida	112.1
12	Delaware	111.8
13	New Hampshire	107.7
14	Washington	107.6
15	Arkansas	106.7
16	Idaho	106.5
17	New Mexico	104.6
18	Kansas	102.2
19	North Dakota	100.9
20	Georgia	100.4
21	North Carolina	99.8
22	Texas	99.7
23	Oklahoma	99.3
24	Virginia	97
25	Michigan	95.7
26	New Jersey	89.7
27	West Virginia	89.4
28	Arizona	88.1
29	Pennsylvania	88
30	Tennessee	87.1
31	Minnesota	86.9
32	Oregon	86.4
33	Maryland	85.7
34	Alaska	82.7
35	Mississippi	82.4
36	Louisiana	81.6
37	Kentucky	81.3
38	South Carolina	81.2
39	Massachusetts	80
40	Vermont	78.5
41	Wyoming	77.2
42	New York	76.1
43	Illinois	75.1
44	Indiana	73.6
45	Utah	69.9
46	Maine	69.8
47	Rhode Island	61.8

Source: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2023 – Statistical Tables (NCJ 310197), table 21. Reference period: 2023.

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U.S. states ranked by custody population as % of lowest capacity (2023). Data: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2023 – Statistical Tables (NCJ 310197), table 21; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-03. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-custody-population-as-pct-of-lowest-capacity/

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