Child Welfare Services/Case Management System
Children in Out of Home Placements
Supervised by Welfare, by Placement
October 2006

County Total In
County		 %
In
County		 Out
of
County		 %
Out
of
County		 Out
of
State		 %
Out
of
State
California 74902 58032 77.5 14831 19.8 2039 2.7
Alameda 2704 1442 53.3 1177 43.5 85 3.1
Amador 33 22 66.7 11 33.3 0 0
Butte 721 558 77.4 148 20.5 15 2.1
Calaveras 94 57 60.6 35 37.2 2 2.1
Colusa 50 18 36.0 32 64.0 0 0
Contra Costa 1576 1125 71.4 432 27.4 19 1.2
Del Norte 111 92 82.9 19 17.1 0 0
El Dorado 224 126 56.3 77 34.4 21 9.4
Fresno 2398 1999 83.4 369 15.4 30 1.3
Glenn 112 57 50.9 53 47.3 2 1.8
Humboldt 280 241 86.1 28 10.0 11 3.9
Imperial 344 249 72.4 87 25.3 8 2.3
Inyo 13 10 76.9 3 23.1 0 0
Kern 2296 2033 88.5 197 8.6 66 2.9
Kings 337 234 69.4 101 30.0 2 0.6
Lake 207 142 68.6 61 29.5 4 1.9
Lassen 60 39 65.0 20 33.3 1 1.7
Los Angeles 25215 21819 86.5 2811 11.1 585 2.3
Madera 329 168 51.1 160 48.6 1 0.3
Marin 80 63 78.8 14 17.5 3 3.8
Mariposa 50 21 42.0 25 50.0 4 8.0
Mendocino 294 173 58.8 104 35.4 17 5.8
Merced 606 401 66.2 194 32.0 11 1.8
Modoc 11 3 27.3 7 63.6 1 9.1
Mono 7 2 28.6 5 71.4 0 0
Monterey 439 360 82.0 48 10.9 31 7.1
Napa 104 68 65.4 28 26.9 8 7.7
Nevada 84 53 63.1 29 34.5 2 2.4
Orange 3136 2235 71.3 823 26.2 78 2.5
Placer 350 213 60.9 133 38.0 4 1.1
Plumas 65 33 50.8 30 46.2 2 3.1
Riverside 5448 4191 76.9 1142 21.0 115 2.1
Sacramento 4500 3309 73.5 1100 24.4 91 2.0
San Benito 69 25 36.2 42 60.9 2 2.9
San Bernardino 4562 3466 76.0 955 20.9 141 3.1
San Diego 5476 4725 86.3 407 7.4 344 6.3
San Francisco 1739 763 43.9 917 52.7 59 3.4
San Joaquin 1538 1228 79.8 282 18.3 28 1.8
San Luis Obispo 422 307 72.7 94 22.3 21 5.0
San Mateo 446 263 59.0 175 39.2 8 1.8
Santa Barbara 572 432 75.5 134 23.4 6 1.0
Santa Clara 1956 1325 67.7 569 29.1 62 3.2
Santa Cruz 306 227 74.2 69 22.5 10 3.3
Shasta 519 409 78.8 93 17.9 17 3.3
Sierra 8 0 0 8 100.0 0 0
Siskiyou 142 93 65.5 45 31.7 4 2.8
Solano 516 382 74.0 120 23.3 14 2.7
Sonoma 595 438 73.6 150 25.2 7 1.2
Stanislaus 506 405 80.0 94 18.6 7 1.4
Sutter 181 76 42.0 98 54.1 7 3.9
Tehama 249 179 71.9 66 26.5 4 1.6
Trinity 35 22 62.9 11 31.4 2 5.7
Tulare 1042 831 79.8 190 18.2 21 2.0
Tuolumne 147 86 58.5 53 36.1 8 5.4
Ventura 667 544 81.6 91 13.6 32 4.8
Yolo 445 146 32.8 288 64.7 11 2.5
Yuba 236 104 44.1 128 54.2 4 1.7
Unknown 250 0 0 249 99.6 1 0.4

This monthly caseload includes children whose out-of-home placement was closed, but whose placement episode record remained open for reasons deemed necessary by the social worker.
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