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Imprisonment rate per 100,000 adults 18+: U.S. states ranked (2023)

Measure: Imprisonment rate per 100,000 adults 18+. All 50 states with data in Prisoners and imprisonment rates by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2023.

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Data last updated
2026-10-30
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National value: 460 (United States).

Washington: 229Idaho: 641Montana: 552North Dakota: 313Minnesota: 196Michigan: 415Ohio: 504Pennsylvania: 376New York: 209Vermont: 150New Hampshire: 183Maine: 144Arizona: 568California: 314New Mexico: 328Texas: 634Louisiana: 804Mississippi: 847Alabama: 505Florida: 474Georgia: 582South Carolina: 380North Carolina: 350Virginia: 400District of Columbia: not in this tableMaryland: 334Delaware: 346New Jersey: 160Connecticut: 229Rhode Island: 150Massachusetts: 118Oregon: 361Utah: 255Wyoming: 484Nevada: 415Colorado: 364South Dakota: 533Nebraska: 390Kansas: 399Oklahoma: 715Iowa: 354Missouri: 494Wisconsin: 438Illinois: 303Kentucky: 545Arkansas: 773Tennessee: 436West Virginia: 409Indiana: 455Alaska: 266Hawaii: 207

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 118 to 229
  • Group 2: 229 to 354
  • Group 3: 354 to 415
  • Group 4: 415 to 545
  • Highest: 545 to 847
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.

1Mississippi847
2Louisiana804
3Arkansas773
4Oklahoma715
5Idaho641
6Texas634
7Georgia582
8Arizona568
9Montana552
10Kentucky545
11South Dakota533
12Alabama505
13Ohio504
14Missouri494
15Wyoming484
16Florida474
17Indiana455
18Wisconsin438
19Tennessee436
20Michigan415
20Nevada415
22West Virginia409
23Virginia400
24Kansas399
25Nebraska390
26South Carolina380
27Pennsylvania376
28Colorado364
29Oregon361
30Iowa354
31North Carolina350
32Delaware346
33Maryland334
34New Mexico328
35California314
36North Dakota313
37Illinois303
38Alaska266
39Utah255
40Connecticut229
40Washington229
42New York209
43Hawaii207
44Minnesota196
45New Hampshire183
46New Jersey160
47Rhode Island150
47Vermont150
49Maine144
50Massachusetts118

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 adults 18+ (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-adults-18-plus/

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