| County | Incarceration rate |
|---|---|
| Adams | 179.6 |
| Allegheny | 292.4 |
| Armstrong | 107.7 |
| Beaver | 152.1 |
| Bedford | 50.0 |
| Berks | 265.2 |
| Blair | 133.2 |
| Bradford | 250.2 |
| Bucks | 81.5 |
| Butler | 83.3 |
| Cambria | 112.1 |
| Cameron | 200.9 |
| Carbon | 148.0 |
| Centre | 120.8 |
| Chester | 165.9 |
| Clarion | 136.5 |
| Clearfield | 224.3 |
| Clinton | 131.9 |
| Columbia | 92.0 |
| Crawford | 221.3 |
| Cumberland | 130.1 |
| Dauphin | 589.4 |
| Delaware | 222.2 |
| Elk | 131.0 |
| Erie | 441.9 |
| Fayette | 269.8 |
| Forest | 424.6 |
| Franklin | 282.3 |
| Fulton | 315.5 |
| Greene | 236.0 |
| Huntingdon | 118.5 |
| Indiana | 125.0 |
| Jefferson | 108.9 |
| Juniata | 131.5 |
| Lackawanna | 191.8 |
| Lancaster | 171.5 |
| Lawrence | 221.9 |
| Lebanon | 214.4 |
| Lehigh | 265.9 |
| Luzerne | 112.5 |
| Lycoming | 388.2 |
| McKean | 172.0 |
| Mercer | 288.5 |
| Mifflin | 213.0 |
| Monroe | 139.2 |
| Montgomery | 165.7 |
| Montour | 148.1 |
| Northampton | 135.5 |
| Northumberland | 270.7 |
| Perry | 215.6 |
| Philadelphia | 964.6 |
| Pike | 131.7 |
| Potter | 177.0 |
| Schuylkill | 89.1 |
| Snyder | 231.7 |
| Somerset | 133.7 |
| Sullivan | 259.3 |
| Susquehanna | 158.6 |
| Tioga | 234.5 |
| Union | 132.1 |
| Venango | 333.5 |
| Warren | 164.1 |
| Washington | 125.2 |
| Wayne | 215.8 |
| Westmoreland | 95.1 |
| Wyoming | 213.7 |
| York | 255.7 |
Sources and methodology
- Incarceration rate
- These figures represent the number of people who were sentenced from particular county, divided by the population of that county and then multiplied by 100,000. This methodology allows comparison of counties with different sized populations. These calculations are as of December 31, 2000, and are reported by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections in Annual Statistical Report, 2000 [PDF] in Table 14 on page 27. Table 13 in the same report contains the raw numbers for each county.
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