Concealed Carry Permits in California, per capita by county
I happened to notice that the California Dept of Justice’s Firearms Division has placed online a report listing, by county, the number of concealed handgun permits issued during the period 1990-2003. I thought it would be interesting to compare the issue rates by population - so I found some census population estimates by county, and combined the data sets, to get the per capital CHL’s issued in California. Turns out there’s some pretty big variation - between 3.5 percent of the population (Modoc County, for example) to .0013 percent (San Francisco County).
The five counties with the most CHL’s per capita were:
Modoc 3.5893%
Sierra 3.3409%
Trinity 3.1167%
Alpine 2.8950%
Amador 2.2939%
The five counties with the fewest CHL’s per capita were:
San Francisco .0013%
Santa Clara .0112%
Alameda .0139%
Los Angeles .0141%
Santa Cruz .0175%
Here are the county-by-county numbers for 2003, in descending order by ratio of CHL’s to residents. Also, here’s the data as a CSV file if you want to look at it yourself.