Table 1.
Formerly Incarcerated People | New York City Residentsa | New York City Residents From the Poorest Neighborhooda,b | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. | %c | No. | %c | No. | %c | |
Total | 155,272 | 6,231,402 | 349,120 | |||
Demographic characteristics | ||||||
Age, years | ||||||
16–24 | 49,324 | 32 | 1,009,654 | 16 | 75,140 | 22 |
25–34 | 41,498 | 27 | 1,368,021 | 22 | 78,448 | 22 |
35–44 | 41,968 | 27 | 1,263,280 | 20 | 75,314 | 22 |
45–54 | 18,049 | 12 | 1,012,385 | 16 | 52,151 | 15 |
55–64 | 3,799 | 2 | 683,454 | 11 | 34,992 | 10 |
65–89 | 634 | 0 | 894,608 | 14 | 33,075 | 9 |
Sex | ||||||
Female | 18,111 | 12 | 3,332,730 | 53 | 194,327 | 56 |
Male | 137,161 | 88 | 2,898,672 | 47 | 154,793 | 44 |
Race/ethnicityd | ||||||
Non-Hispanic white | 13,489 | 9 | 2,364,340 | 38 | 6,024 | 2 |
Non-Hispanic black | 84,228 | 54 | 1,448,587 | 23 | 114,989 | 33 |
Hispanic | 52,666 | 34 | 1,564,069 | 25 | 216,463 | 62 |
Asian | 1,277 | 1 | 631,192 | 10 | 4,035 | 1 |
Other | 3,416 | 2 | 223,214 | 4 | 7,609 | 2 |
Neighborhood income | ||||||
Low | 86,554 | 56 | 1,920,897 | 31 | 349,120 | 100 |
Middle | 50,724 | 33 | 2,527,319 | 41 | ||
High | 17,994 | 12 | 1,783,186 | 29 | ||
Incarceration characteristics | ||||||
No. of times incarcerated | ||||||
1 | 76,475 | 49 | ||||
2–3 | 49,008 | 32 | ||||
≥4 | 29,789 | 19 | ||||
Cumulative days of incarceration | ||||||
≤3 | 45,800 | 30 | ||||
4–25 | 40,914 | 26 | ||||
≥26 | 68,558 | 44 | ||||
Most frequent type of chargese | ||||||
Violence | 57,210 | 37 | ||||
Drug sales or drug possession | 61,171 | 39 | ||||
Homeless shelter registrant, 2001–2005f | 16,216 | 10 |
Restricted to people who were 16–89 years of age.
People living in the South Bronx (United Hospital Fund’s neighborhood designations 105, 106, and 107), which is the New York City neighborhood with the highest percent of people living in poverty (42%) according to the US Census 2000.
Percentages may not add to 100 because of rounding.
There were 196 formerly incarcerated people for whom race/ethnicity data were missing.
Categories are not mutually exclusive; one can receive multiple charges.
Anyone who spent at least 1 night in a New York City single-adult homeless shelter from 2001 through 2005.