Prison population and the census

[DINGO Joe]

Is there an easy way to determine the population and demographics of counties minus their prison populations.  I'm specifically interested in the CAPP coal region--Eastern Kentucky, South WV and SW Va.  Besides state prisons, there tends to be a large number of federal prisons located in the region.  Is there any census filter that pulls out the incarcerated?

[Angrie]

There are categories for "Institutionalized Population" which you can search on using American Factfinder and tools like that.

https://ask.census.gov/faq.php?id=5000&faqId=6669

This is not exactly the same thing as the prison population, but it is close, and there are variations on it.

Similarly, there is "Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population."

https://www.census.gov/popest/about/terms.html

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[DINGO Joe]

Thanks, it's a useful link, but sadly they only separate by sex and not race.  What I really want is to look at, like Lee County, VA and see what the racial demographics are without the prison population.

[jimrtex]

Is there an easy way to determine the population and demographics of counties minus their prison populations.  I'm specifically interested in the CAPP coal region--Eastern Kentucky, South WV and SW Va.  Besides state prisons, there tends to be a large number of federal prisons located in the region.  Is there any census filter that pulls out the incarcerated?

GROUP QUARTERS POPULATION BY GROUP QUARTERS TYPE

There are some subtables that pull out numbers by race, age, or sex.

Boyd County, Kentucky had a federal prison with 1515 inmates:

671 non-Hispanic White.
646 black
14 American Indian
12 Asian
197 Hispanic

This totals to 1540, so must be 25 black Hispanics.

[DINGO Joe]

Is there an easy way to determine the population and demographics of counties minus their prison populations.  I'm specifically interested in the CAPP coal region--Eastern Kentucky, South WV and SW Va.  Besides state prisons, there tends to be a large number of federal prisons located in the region.  Is there any census filter that pulls out the incarcerated?

GROUP QUARTERS POPULATION BY GROUP QUARTERS TYPE

There are some subtables that pull out numbers by race, age, or sex.

Boyd County, Kentucky had a federal prison with 1515 inmates:

671 non-Hispanic White.
646 black
14 American Indian
12 Asian
197 Hispanic

This totals to 1540, so must be 25 black Hispanics.

Yeah that gets to info I want, sadly just not on a silver platter.