Table 75
Full-time Civilian Law Enforcement Employees
by Population Group
Percent of Total, 2011
| Population group |
Percent civilian employees |
Number of agencies |
2011 estimated population |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOTAL AGENCIES: | 30.3 | 14,633 | 293,058,940 |
| TOTAL CITIES | 22.1 | 11,234 | 197,246,457 |
| GROUP I (250,000 and over) | 22.8 | 75 | 56,398,148 |
| 1,000,000 and over (Group I subset) | 23.9 | 10 | 25,247,146 |
| 500,000 to 999,999 (Group I subset) | 21.4 | 25 | 17,298,847 |
| 250,000 to 499,999 (Group I subset) | 21.9 | 40 | 13,852,155 |
| GROUP II (100,000 to 249,999) | 23.6 | 196 | 29,447,050 |
| GROUP III (50,000 to 99,999) | 22.5 | 428 | 29,634,590 |
| GROUP IV (25,000 to 49,999) | 20.5 | 828 | 28,652,012 |
| GROUP V (10,000 to 24,999) | 19.4 | 1,834 | 29,005,261 |
| GROUP VI (under 10,000) | 22.3 | 7,873 | 24,109,396 |
| METROPOLITAN COUNTIES | 41.0 | 1,285 | 68,238,191 |
| NONMETROPOLITAN COUNTIES | 41.1 | 2,114 | 27,574,292 |
| SUBURBAN AREAS1 | 34.1 | 7,630 | 125,240,573 |
- 1 Suburban areas include law enforcement agencies in cities with less than 50,000 inhabitants and county law enforcement agencies that are within a Metropolitan Statistical Area (see Data Declaration). Suburban areas exclude all metropolitan agencies associated with a principal city. The agencies associated with suburban areas also appear in other groups within this table.
Data Declaration
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Overview
Full-time Civilian Law Enforcement Employees, by Population Group, Percent of Total, 2011
- In 2011, 30.3 percent of the Nation’s full-time law enforcement employees were civilians.
- Within the nation’s cities, 22.1 percent of full-time law enforcement employees were civilians.
- The highest percentages of full-time civilian law enforcement employees were in metropolitan counties (41.0 percent) and nonmetropolitan counties
(41.1 percent).
