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Table 28

IOWA

Full-time Law Enforcement Employees

by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2016

Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan County Total law
enforcement
employees
Total
officers
Total
civilians
Metropolitan Counties Benton 31 12 19
Black Hawk 137 95 42
Bremer 32 12 20
Dallas 58 24 34
Dubuque 87 72 15
Grundy 16 12 4
Guthrie 14 9 5
Harrison 11 10 1
Johnson 90 68 22
Jones 24 10 14
Linn 188 121 67
Madison 16 8 8
Mills 27 11 16
Plymouth 31 11 20
Polk 459 127 332
Pottawattamie 200 54 146
Scott 153 43 110
Story 85 31 54
Warren 36 20 16
Washington 36 17 19
Woodbury 129 38 91
Nonmetropolitan Counties Adair 13 5 8
Adams 11 6 5
Allamakee 17 9 8
Appanoose 15 7 8
Audubon 10 6 4
Boone 29 11 18
Buchanan 28 13 15
Buena Vista 34 13 21
Butler 18 12 6
Calhoun 11 6 5
Carroll 22 9 13
Cass 12 9 3
Cedar 36 13 23
Cerro Gordo 73 20 53
Cherokee 20 7 13
Chickasaw 15 8 7
Clarke 20 7 13
Clay 23 10 13
Clayton 26 12 14
Clinton 43 25 18
Crawford 15 10 5
Davis 6 5 1
Decatur 17 6 11
Delaware 20 13 7
Des Moines 47 20 27
Dickinson 19 9 10
Emmet 18 9 9
Fayette 37 12 25
Floyd 18 11 7
Franklin 10 7 3
Fremont 26 9 17
Greene 16 7 9
Hamilton 26 10 16
Hancock 11 11 0
Hardin 31 11 20
Henry 30 11 19
Howard 16 9 7
Humboldt 15 9 6
Ida 17 10 7
Iowa 28 12 16
Jackson 17 10 7
Jasper 46 17 29
Jefferson 29 27 2
Keokuk 11 6 5
Kossuth 25 10 15
Lee 35 15 20
Louisa 28 11 17
Lucas 12 5 7
Lyon 26 12 14
Mahaska 23 9 14
Marion 36 15 21
Marshall 55 19 36
Mitchell 16 7 9
Monona 18 8 10
Monroe 14 5 9
Montgomery 19 8 11
Muscatine 70 21 49
O'Brien 28 9 19
Osceola 13 9 4
Page 16 8 8
Palo Alto 17 8 9
Pocahontas 15 7 8
Ringgold 12 6 6
Sac 19 8 11
Shelby 15 9 6
Sioux 40 14 26
Tama 22 13 9
Taylor 13 9 4
Union 12 6 6
Van Buren 11 5 6
Wapello 44 12 32
Wayne 15 6 9
Webster 32 16 16
Winneshiek 23 10 13
Worth 25 13 12
Wright 20 9 11

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