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Q: Does the number of juvenile residential placement facilities vary by State?
A: The number of facilities varies considerably by State, ranging from 1 to 91 on October 28, 2020.

Number of juvenile facilities and youth held for an offense by State, 2020

State of facility All
facilities		 Public
facilities		 Private
facilities		 All
youth		 Youth in
public facilities		 Youth in
private facilities
United States 1,323 838 485 25,014 19,211 5,803
Alabama 29 12 17 639 366 273
Alaska 12 6 6 162 129 33
Arizona 17 10 7 492 426 66
Arkansas 20 16 4 345 300 45
California 91 62 29 2,673 2,388 285
Colorado 21 12 9 447 381 66
Connecticut 3 * * 39 * *
Delaware 7 * * 81 * *
District of Columbia 4 * * 99 * *
Florida 62 25 37 1,473 759 714
Georgia 32 25 7 1,089 993 96
Hawaii 4 * * 48 * *
Idaho 14 * * 318 * *
Illinois 28 24 4 573 540 33
Indiana 52 25 27 924 522 402
Iowa 31 10 21 483 144 342
Kansas 12 * * 303 * *
Kentucky 26 23 3 252 222 30
Louisiana 26 15 11 675 441 234
Maine 1 * * 33 * *
Maryland 18 12 6 234 210 27
Massachusetts 31 17 14 168 96 72
Michigan 36 23 13 738 432 306
Minnesota 31 16 15 417 303 114
Mississippi 16 * * 141 * *
Missouri 45 42 3 498 477 21
Montana 11 4 7 93 60 33
Nebraska 9 4 5 240 162 75
Nevada 11 * * 330 * *
New Hampshire 2 * * 15 * *
New Jersey 23 * * 456 * *
New Mexico 11 * * 201 * *
New York 76 17 59 792 414 378
North Carolina 30 24 6 501 402 99
North Dakota 5 * * 36 * *
Ohio 63 56 7 1,335 1,254 81
Oklahoma 19 11 8 237 159 78
Oregon 28 22 6 573 474 99
Pennsylvania 71 20 51 1,125 504 621
Rhode Island 9 1 8 63 18 45
South Carolina 19 8 11 483 324 159
South Dakota 14 9 5 111 90 21
Tennessee 20 13 7 237 153 84
Texas 75 63 12 2,700 2,277 420
Utah 19 12 7 243 135 111
Vermont 1 * * 15 * *
Virginia 34 * * 654 * *
Washington 31 * * 504 * *
West Virginia 30 10 20 249 153 96
Wisconsin 31 20 11 339 267 69
Wyoming 12 6 6 147 108 39

Notes: The term ‘youth’ refers to persons under age 21 who were in a facility because they were charged with or adjudicated for an offense.

*To protect the identity of specific facilities, some data are suppressed. Specifically, if the total number of facilities is greater than 0 and less than 5, no detail data will be displayed. In addition, if the total number of private facilities in a given year is 1 or 2, no detailed data will be displayed.

To preserve the privacy of the youth in residential placement, state cell counts have been rounded to the nearest multiple of three.

The COVID-19 pandemic had significant effects on all stages of the juvenile justice system, including juvenile residential facilities, which may have impacted multiple aspects of the 2020 JRFC data, such as reporting, the number of youth in residential placement, and the services received.
  • Private facilities are operated by private non-profit or for-profit corporations or organizations in which the employees working daily in the facilities and directly with the residents are employees of that private corporation or organization.
  • State or local government agencies operate public facilities - the employees working daily in the facilities and directly with the residents are State or local government employees.
Internet citation: OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book. Online. Available: https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/corrections/qa08604.asp?qaDate=2020. Released on January 10, 2023.

Adapted from the Juvenile Residential Facility Census Databook. Available on-line at: https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/jrfcdb/.

Data Source: Authors' analysis of the Juvenile Residential Facility Census 2020 [machine-readable data files]. Washington, D.C.: OJJDP.