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Table 75

Full-time Civilian Law Enforcement Employees

by Population Group

Percent of Total, 2014

Population group Percent
civilian
employees		 Number
of
agencies		 2014
estimated
population
TOTAL AGENCIES: 30.2 12,656 268,296,362
TOTAL CITIES 22.2 9,792 183,432,062
GROUP I (250,000 and over) 23.4 72 55,946,176
1,000,000 and over (Group I subset) 24.2 11 27,023,807
500,000 to 999,999 (Group I subset) 21.2 22 15,514,245
250,000 to 499,999 (Group I subset) 23.8 39 13,408,124
GROUP II (100,000 to 249,999) 23.8 192 28,478,947
GROUP III (50,000 to 99,999) 22.2 405 28,000,451
GROUP IV (25,000 to 49,999) 20.0 729 25,123,097
GROUP V (10,000 to 24,999) 18.7 1,579 25,167,878
GROUP VI (under 10,000) 22.3 6,815 20,715,513
METROPOLITAN COUNTIES 41.4 1,139 63,564,804
NONMETROPOLITAN COUNTIES 40.0 1,725 21,299,496
SUBURBAN AREAS1 34.5 6,730 114,360,957
  • 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.

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Full-time Civilian Law Enforcement Employees, by Population Group, Percent of Total, 2014 

  • In 2014, more than 30 percent (30.2) of the nation’s full-time law enforcement employees were civilians. 

  • Within the nation’s cities, 22.2 percent of full-time law enforcement employees were civilians. 

  • The highest percentages of full-time civilian law enforcement employees were in metropolitan counties (41.4 percent) and nonmetropolitan counties (40.0 percent).