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Cost and staffing figures for every county sheriff’s office on record, compared county by county within each state: sheriff budget, cost per resident, sworn and custody staffing per 100,000 residents, and rated jail capacity. Comparisons are built per state, since costs and staffing only mean something measured against neighboring counties in the same state. Pick a state below — each table is also downloadable as CSV and XLSX.

States

State Counties Total budget
Alabama 67
Arizona 15
Arkansas 75
California 58 $13.92B
Colorado 64
Delaware 3
Florida 67 $9.69B
Georgia 159 $2.2B
Idaho 44
Illinois 102
Indiana 92
Iowa 99
Kansas 105
Kentucky 120
Louisiana 64
Maine 16
Maryland 24
Massachusetts 14
Michigan 83
Minnesota 87
Mississippi 82
Missouri 115
Montana 56
Nebraska 93
Nevada 17
New Hampshire 10
New Jersey 21
New Mexico 33
New York 62
North Carolina 100
North Dakota 53
Ohio 88
Oklahoma 77
Oregon 36
Pennsylvania 67
South Carolina 46
South Dakota 66
Tennessee 95
Texas 254 $4.63B
Utah 29
Vermont 14
Virginia 95
Washington 39 $1.62B
West Virginia 55
Wisconsin 72
Wyoming 23

= not yet available. Budget and staff figures are added per state as data sources are crawled.