Table 74

Full-time Law Enforcement Employees
by Population Group
Percent Male and Female, 2005

Population group	Total law enforcement employees	Percent law enforcement employees		Total officers	Percent officers		Total civilians	Percent civilians		Number of Agencies	2005 estimated population
Population group	Total law enforcement employees	Male	Female	Total officers	Male	Female	Total civilians	Male	Female	Number of Agencies	2005 estimated population
TOTAL AGENCIES:	969,070	73.1	26.9	673,146	88.4	11.6	295,924	38.2	61.8	14,291	279,200,617
TOTAL CITIES	561,844	74.9	25.1	431,590	88.3	11.7	130,254	30.6	69.4	10,832	187,432,928
GROUP I (250,000 and over)	202,230	70.4	29.6	151,870	83.0	17.0	50,360	32.6	67.4	70	53,583,154
1,000,000 and over (Group I subset)	110,340	69.0	31.0	81,899	81.8	18.2	28,441	32.0	68.0	10	24,885,884
500,000 to 999,999 (Group I subset)	52,384	73.2	26.8	40,358	83.9	16.1	12,026	37.4	62.6	23	15,331,041
250,000 to 499,999 (Group I subset)	39,506	70.8	29.2	29,613	84.8	15.2	9,893	28.8	71.2	37	13,366,229
GROUP II (100,000 to 249,999)	66,461	73.3	26.7	50,111	88.7	11.3	16,350	26.1	73.9	180	27,066,683
GROUP III (50,000 to 99,999)	63,134	76.1	23.9	48,687	90.8	9.2	14,447	26.4	73.6	411	28,032,707
GROUP IV (25,000 to 49,999)	61,199	77.9	22.1	48,052	91.5	8.5	13,147	28.0	72.0	769	26,455,091
GROUP V (10,000 to 24,999)	68,958	79.3	20.7	54,925	92.7	7.3	14,033	26.9	73.1	1,791	28,385,387
GROUP VI (under 10,000)	99,862	79.4	20.6	77,945	91.6	8.4	21,917	36.2	63.8	7,611	23,909,906
METROPOLITAN COUNTIES	280,410	69.7	30.3	165,011	86.8	13.2	115,399	45.4	54.6	1,264	63,938,833
NONMETROPOLITAN COUNTIES	126,816	72.1	27.9	76,545	92.3	7.7	50,271	41.5	58.5	2,195	27,828,856
SUBURBAN AREA¹	438,747	73.1	26.9	288,835	88.9	11.1	149,912	42.7	57.3	7,354	118,418,670

¹ Suburban area includes 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 area excludes all metropolitan agencies associated with a principal city. The agencies associated with suburban areas also appear in other groups within this table.

Data Declaration

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Nationwide in 2005, 88.4 percent of full-time law enforcement officers were males.
Nationwide, 61.8 percent of full-time civilian law enforcement employees were females.
Cities with populations of 10,000 to 24,999 inhabitants employed the highest percentage (92.7) of male police officers.
Cities with populations of 1 million or over employed the highest percentage of full-time female police officers; 18.2 percent of the officers in these agencies were female.
Cities with populations of 100,000 to 249,999 had the highest percentage (73.9) of female civilian law enforcement employees.
Metropolitan county agencies had the highest percentage of full-time male civilian law enforcement employees; 45.4 percent of these employees were male.