The Door County Inmate Population
The Door County inmate population is local in a direct way. Official county sources identify one sheriff-operated facility, the Door County Jail, as the jail for ongoing local custody. People arrested by Door County deputies, Sturgeon Bay police, or other local agencies generally route to that jail when they are not cited and released, medically diverted, or transferred to another jurisdiction. The population can include pretrial detainees, people waiting for first appearance, local sentenced inmates, Huber work-release participants, and short-term holds.
The official jail page reports 109 operational beds. The Sheriff's Office 2025 Annual Report also describes a 143-bed direct-supervision facility, while using 109 as the operational capacity. That distinction matters because the Door County inmate population is not a single fixed number. It moves when arrests occur, bond is posted, court orders change, Huber status begins, electronic monitoring is approved, or a sentenced person leaves the county jail for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.
Door County Inmate Population Statistics
The strongest official figures come from the county jail page and the Door County Sheriff's Office annual report page. The jail page gives the bed split. The 2025 annual report gives average daily population, bookings, and activity categories. A live current-population dashboard was not found in the official sources reviewed, so current-day headcounts should be checked with the jail rather than treated as published online.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Operational jail capacity | 109 beds | Door County Jail page, reviewed 2026 |
| Secure jail beds | 60 beds | Door County Jail page, reviewed 2026 |
| Huber/work-release beds | 49 beds | Door County Jail page, reviewed 2026 |
| 2025 average daily population | 64 | Door County Sheriff's Office 2025 Annual Report |
| 2025 annual bookings | 859 | Door County Sheriff's Office 2025 Annual Report |
| 2025 booking gender totals | 717 male; 142 female | Door County Sheriff's Office 2025 Annual Report |
The 2025 annual report also lists 2025 booking reasons: new offenses, warrants, probation holds, sentence service, safekeeper entries, and court writ entries. Those categories should not be added together with population counts. They describe admissions or report categories, while average daily population describes how many people were held on a typical day.
Door County Inmate Population Trends
The five-year annual report table shows a steady Door County jail count, not a clear surge. Average daily population stayed in the low to mid sixties from 2021 through 2025. Admissions were less steady. They rose from 654 in 2021 to 859 in 2025, with a lower 2024 count between those years. Average length of stay stayed between 15 and 18 days in the same table.
| Year | ADP / Admissions | Average Length of Stay |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 64 ADP; 654 admissions | 15 days |
| 2022 | 67 ADP; 756 admissions | 17 days |
| 2023 | 62 ADP; 781 admissions | 15 days |
| 2024 | 65 ADP; 661 admissions | 18 days |
| 2025 | 64 ADP; 859 admissions | 16 days |
Door County's seasonal geography may affect law-enforcement work, but the official annual report excerpt did not say tourism caused any monthly peak. The safer reading is narrower: the report gives the dates and figures; it does not assign a cause. The Door County inmate population should be described with that restraint.
Door County Jail Capacity
The Door County Jail capacity split is unusually useful for an inmate-population page. Of the 109 operational beds, 60 are secure jail beds and 49 are Huber beds. Huber is Wisconsin's work-release custody structure. It allows eligible inmates with court approval to leave for approved work or programming and return to custody under jail rules. That means nearly half of the stated bed capacity is tied to a custody status that is different from ordinary secure detention.
No official consent decree, emergency overcrowding order, or live utilization dashboard was located in the county sources reviewed. The annual report's 2025 average daily population of 64 was below the 109-bed operational capacity. That does not prove every day was below capacity, and it does not describe housing-unit pressure. It only supports the annual average comparison.
- Huber
- Wisconsin work-release custody for eligible people who may leave for approved work or programs.
- ADP
- Average daily population, a yearly or monthly average of the people held each day.
- Operational capacity
- The working bed count the jail uses for operations, which may differ from design capacity.
Door County Jail Record Laws
Wisconsin law sets the frame for Door County jail records and jail operation. Wis. Stat. 19.35 gives access rights for many public records held by local authorities. Wis. Stat. 19.36 lists limits and exceptions that can affect juvenile, investigative, medical, victim, security, and protected personal information. Those laws support records requests, but they do not require Door County to post a live roster or mugshot gallery online.
Key Statutes:
Wis. Admin. Code DOC 350 sets statewide county-jail standards for safety, supervision, health, and facility practices.
Wis. Stat. 302.37 supports reporting by jailers or custodians to the Department of Corrections in certain settings.
Wis. Stat. 970.01 governs initial appearances, where jail custody begins to connect with formal court process.
Search Door County Inmate Records
No official public Door County live jail roster, inmate-search portal, recent-bookings feed, or mugshot gallery was found on the official county pages reviewed. That absence is central. A search for the Door County inmate population begins with the jail page for the official phone and rules, then moves to direct jail contact, an open-records request, court records, WIDOC, VINELink, BOP, or ICE depending on custody type.
- Check the Door County Jail Information hub and jail page for official custody-service links.
- Call the Door County Jail at 920-746-2400 with the person's full name, date of birth if known, and arrest date or agency if known.
- If staff cannot release the detail by phone, ask how to submit an open-records request for a booking record, jail log, or booking photo.
- Search Wisconsin Circuit Court Access after charges are filed, using Door County as the county filter when available.
- Use the Wisconsin DOC Public Offender Locator for sentenced prisoners or supervision status.
Door County Roster Fields
Because the official Door County pages reviewed did not expose a live roster form, the county-jail search-field table is a fallback table. It tells the reader what to prepare before contacting the jail or making a records request. State and court portals have their own fields.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Options / Format Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| No official live roster found | Not applicable | Not applicable | Door County Sheriff's Office pages reviewed did not expose a public current-inmate search form. |
| Phone fallback | Phone inquiry | Not a web field | Call 920-746-2400 with full name, date of birth if known, and booking date or arrest agency if known. |
| Records request fallback | Written request | Not a web field | Request booking records or jail logs from the Sheriff's Office records custodian under Wisconsin open-records law. |
The Door County Sheriff's Office page is the best official starting point for sheriff routing. Formal charges after an arrest belong in court records, not in a jail roster. For that path, use the Door County court records after jail arrest page.
Door County Jail vs Prison Lookup
Readers often mix jail, prison, federal custody, and immigration detention. Door County has no state prison, federal BOP institution, or ICE detention facility identified inside the county in the official sources reviewed. A local arrest may still lead to one of those systems later if the case is sentenced, charged federally, or tied to immigration custody.
| Custody Type | Where to Look | What It Covers |
|---|---|---|
| Door County pretrial or short sentence | Door County Jail phone or records request | Current local jail custody, booking records, local jail logs. |
| Filed criminal case | WCCA/CCAP | Charges, hearings, bond entries, warrants, dispositions, and sentencing entries. |
| Sentenced state prisoner | WIDOC Public Offender Locator | DOC number, institution or supervision status, sentence data, dates, and possible DOC photo. |
| Federal prisoner | BOP inmate locator | Register number, federal facility, age, race, sex, and release date or status. |
| Immigration detainee | ICE Online Detainee Locator | ICE custody search by A-number/country or biographical data. |
Door County Jail Sources
The official Door County Jail page is the source for the jail's capacity, address, visitation, mail, money, commissary, JailATM, and phone-service information.
The screenshot reinforces that the county publishes operational jail information even though an official live roster was not found in the reviewed pages.
The Jail Information hub collects local topics such as Huber, posting bond, electronic monitoring, confinement, and annual reports.
Those linked local pages explain why the Door County inmate population has to be read through several channels rather than through a single public roster search.
Door County Detention Facilities
The facility map has one local detention facility. The Door County Jail is the county jail and Huber/work-release location. No separate Door County work-release building, regional jail, city jail with its own public lookup, state prison, federal BOP facility, or ICE detention center was identified in official sources reviewed.
- Door County Jail - sheriff-operated county jail in Sturgeon Bay for adults arrested in Door County, pretrial detainees, local sentenced inmates, Huber participants, and short-term holds.
Once a person is sentenced to state prison, the person stops being part of the Door County Jail population and moves to the WIDOC system. Federal and immigration cases follow separate locators. VINELink can help with custody notifications where the agency feed covers the person.
Door County Inmate Population FAQ
How big is the Door County inmate population?
The 2025 Sheriff's Office Annual Report lists a 2025 average daily population of 64 and 859 admissions. The official jail page lists 109 operational beds, split between 60 secure beds and 49 Huber beds.
Can the Door County inmate population be searched online?
No official live public Door County jail roster was found in the county pages reviewed. Current local custody starts with the jail phone line, in-person jail contact, or an open-records request.
Where are court charges found after arrest?
After charges are filed, search WCCA/CCAP and select Door County when the filter is available. Court records show filed charges and case events, not a live jail headcount.
Does Door County publish jail mugshots?
No official Door County public mugshot gallery or recent-bookings feed was found in the reviewed sheriff pages. Booking photos may be requested under open records, subject to Wisconsin limits and redactions.
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