Table 74

Full-time Law Enforcement Employees
by Population Group
Percent Male and Female, 2006

Population group	Total law enforcement employees	Percent law enforcement employees		Total officers	Percent officers		Total civilians	Percent civilians		Number of Agencies	2006 estimated population
Population group	Total law enforcement employees	Male	Female	Total officers	Male	Female	Total civilians	Male	Female	Number of Agencies	2006 estimated population
TOTAL AGENCIES:	987,125	72.9	27.1	683,396	88.2	11.8	303,729	38.4	61.6	14,336	283,238,660
TOTAL CITIES	569,149	74.8	25.2	436,908	88.2	11.8	132,241	30.6	69.4	10,872	189,942,258
GROUP I (250,000 and over)	203,153	70.4	29.6	152,315	83.0	17.0	50,838	32.5	67.5	71	53,957,412
1,000,000 and over (Group I subset)	111,769	68.7	31.3	82,227	81.7	18.3	29,542	32.5	67.5	10	25,080,811
500,000 to 999,999 (Group I subset)	52,047	73.3	26.7	40,490	84.1	15.9	11,557	35.5	64.5	23	15,413,225
250,000 to 499,999 (Group I subset)	39,337	71.2	28.8	29,598	85.1	14.9	9,739	29.1	70.9	38	13,463,376
GROUP II (100,000 to 249,999)	66,660	73.0	27.0	50,019	88.3	11.7	16,641	26.9	73.1	181	27,081,536
GROUP III (50,000 to 99,999)	66,017	76.1	23.9	50,896	90.6	9.4	15,121	26.9	73.1	423	29,029,089
GROUP IV (25,000 to 49,999)	63,074	77.9	22.1	49,616	91.5	8.5	13,458	27.6	72.4	788	27,199,664
GROUP V (10,000 to 24,999)	69,994	79.2	20.8	55,907	92.5	7.5	14,087	26.6	73.4	1,818	28,813,877
GROUP VI (under 10,000)	100,251	79.3	20.7	78,155	91.7	8.3	22,096	35.7	64.3	7,591	23,860,680
METROPOLITAN COUNTIES	298,417	69.7	30.3	176,049	86.6	13.4	122,368	45.4	54.6	1,308	65,765,925
NONMETROPOLITAN COUNTIES	119,559	71.7	28.3	70,439	92.4	7.6	49,120	42.0	58.0	2,156	27,530,477
SUBURBAN AREA¹	459,698	72.9	27.1	302,210	88.7	11.3	157,488	42.6	57.4	7,438	121,334,744

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 2006, 88.2 percent of full-time law enforcement officers were males.
Nationwide, 61.6 percent of full-time civilian law enforcement employees were females.
Cities with populations of 10,000 to 24,999 inhabitants employed the highest percentage (92.5) of male police officers.
Cities with populations of 1 million or over employed the highest percentage of full-time female police officers; 18.3 percent of the officers in these agencies were female.
Cities with populations of 10,000 to 24,999 had the highest percentage (73.4) 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.