New Hanover County Inmate Search

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New Hanover County, NC Jail Inmate Search

NEW HANOVER COUNTY is located in North Carolina with an average daily population of 527. The county has approximately 522 confined in facilities with 461 male and 61 female prisoners. That means that 88% of the confined population are male, and 12% are female.

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How Does New Hanover County Inmate Search Work?

Inmate records for New Hanover County are freely accessible. All detention facilities in New Hanover County are governed by the Freedom of Information Act which provides publicly available information about inmates in the county.

New Hanover County Parole and Probation

New Hanover County Parole

If a prisoner has adhered to the regulations while serving their term, they may be granted parole and be released early. Who is granted parole and who is not is decided by a parole board. You may learn a lot about a parolee by looking through the New Hanover County parole records. There may be information regarding their sentence and offences in the New Hanover County parole files. You could also get to look through information regarding their detention location and parole conditions.

New Hanover County Probation

You should also be able to access New Hanover County probation records, which list men and women who were placed on probation rather than being imprisoned, in addition to those parolees who have already been freed. There are regulations that come with being on probation. In addition to adhering to other conditions, probationers are required to meet their probation officer once per week. Typically, New Hanover County criminal records will list the inmate's offences, probationary term, and the specifics of the justice department that sentenced them. You may also be able to view photographs, fingerprints, the probationer's physical characteristics, and other information in addition to these facts.

New Hanover County Booking

When researching statistics on whether or not a stranger has been arrested, New Hanover County bookings can help. A perpetrator's New Hanover County booking record is basically created when an officer arrests them, fills out the necessary papers, and places them in an imprisonment cell. It could also contain information such as fingerprints, photographs, physical characteristics, their name and address, the officer in charge, the specifics of the crime, the scene, and any trucks that were involved. The general public can access the copies of a person's New Hanover County booking records without requiring any kind of authorization.

New Hanover County Confined Population Statistics

In the past 6 years, the confined population in NEW HANOVER COUNTY has dropped by 5.95% from 555 each year to 522 inmates. Men are still confined about 461 per 100,000 U.S. residents annually in NEW HANOVER COUNTY, despite the fact that women are the group confined at the fastest rate of growth.

Inmate Population in New Hanover County, NC

NEW HANOVER COUNTY has only 522 of the 535 inmates are actually put in jail; the other 13 are under supervision; they are not currently confined.

New Hanover County Jail Inmate Population, Jail Pretrial Population and Confined Population, for 2016-2021 years

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Total Population 765 802 615 n/a 460 535
Confined Population 555 618 615 n/a 460 522
Non Confined Population 210 184 0 n/a 0 13

New Hanover County Confined Population by Gender

In NEW HANOVER COUNTY, there are 461 confined male inmates for every 100,000 male U.S. residents, and 61 confined female inmates for every 100,000 female U.S. citizens. The confined population of male prisoners increased by 0.66% between 2016 and 2021, while the confined population of female dropped by 26.51%.

New Hanover County Female Confined Population for
2016-2021 years

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Adult Females 83 87 85 76 46 61
Females Under 18 0 1 1 0 1 0
Female ADP 76 80 5 n/a 67 64

New Hanover County Male Confined Population for
2016-2021 years

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Adult Males 458 508 514 431 413 461
Males Under 18 14 22 15 0 0 0
Male ADP 472 480 17 n/a 441 463

Breaking Down New Hanover County Inmates By Race

In NEW HANOVER COUNTY, the average confined population for White inmates is 257 per 100,000 white citizens, which is 1.16% lower than the confined population for Black or African American inmates. The number of Black or African American inmates who were confined went from 275 to 260 for every 100,000 black population of the United States between 2016 and 2021. The average Hispanic or Latino confined population in NEW HANOVER COUNTY is 0 per 100,000 Hispanic Americans, while the average Asian confined population is 3 per 100,000 Asian Americans, accounting American Indian/Alaska Natives for just 2 residents of the county's confined population.

New Hanover County Confined Population by Race, for 2016-2021 years

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
White Inmates - Confined 274 316 286 n/a 220 257
Black or African American Inmates - Confined 275 293 326 n/a 237 260
Hispanic or Latino Inmates - Confined 0 0 0 n/a 0 0
American Indian/Alaska Natives Inmates - Confined 5 7 2 n/a 2 2
Asian Inmates - Confined 1 2 1 n/a 1 3
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander Inmates - Confined 0 0 0 n/a 0 0
Two or more Races Inmates - Confined 0 0 0 n/a 0 0
Not Known (Race) Inmates - Confined 0 0 0 n/a 0 0

New Hanover County Prisons and Jails

Federal Jails


Wrightsville Beach City Jail

Address: 3 Bob Sawyer Drive, Wrightsville Beach, NC, 28480

Phone: 910-256-7945

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New Hanover Correctional Center

Address: 330 Division Drive, Wilmington, NC, 28402

Phone: 910-251-2666

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New Hanover County Jail

Address: 3950 Juvenile Center Road, Castle Hayne, NC, 28429

Phone: 910-798-4161, 910-798-4200

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Kure Beach City Jail

Address: 114 7th Avenue, North, Kure Beach, NC, 28449

Phone: 910-458-7586

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Carolina Beach City Jail

Address: 1121 North Lake Park Boulevard, Carolina Beach, NC, 28428

Phone: 910-458-2540

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