Arrests
Nonmetropolitan Counties
by Race, 2007
The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR)
Program.
General comments
- This table provides the number of persons arrested in nonmetropolitan
counties in 2007 broken down by race of the arrestee. In addition, the
table shows the percent distribution of arrests by race for each offense.
The table also furnishes a breakdown of these data by juveniles (persons
under age 18) and adults.
- The totals provided in this table reflect only those persons arrested
by law enforcement agencies that provided race information to the UCR
Program; therefore, the totals may not match those shown in other arrest
tables for nonmetropolitan counties.
- The Nonmetropolitan Counties classification encompasses jurisdictions
covered by noncity law enforcement agencies located outside currently
designated Metropolitan Statistical Areas. (See Area
Definitions).
- These data represent the number of persons arrested; however, some
persons may be arrested more than once during a year. Therefore, the
statistics in this table could, in some cases, represent multiple arrests
of the same person.
Methodology
The data used in creating this table were from nonmetropolitan county
law enforcement agencies submitting 12 months of arrest data, including
race information, for 2007.
Population estimation
For the 2007 population estimates used in this table, the FBI computed
individual rates of growth from one year to the next for every city/town
and county using 2000 decennial population counts and 2001 through 2006
population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Each agency’s rates of
growth were averaged; that average was then applied and added to its 2006
Census population estimate to derive the agency’s 2007 population estimate.
If you have questions about this table
Contact the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division via e-mail
at cjis_comm@leo.gov or by telephone
at (304) 625-4995.