Child Welfare Services/Case Management System
Children in Out of Home Placements
Supervised by Welfare, by Placement
AUGUST 2004

County Total In
County		 %
In
County		 Out
of
County		 %
Out
of
County		 Out
of
State		 %
Out
of
State
TOTAL 82103 63996 77.9 15619 19.0 2488 3.0
Alameda 3533 2055 58.2 1364 38.6 114 3.2
Alpine 4 3 75.0 . . 1 25.0
Amador 29 17 58.6 12 41.4 . .
Butte 740 561 75.8 161 21.8 18 2.4
Calaveras 146 73 50.0 70 47.9 3 2.1
Colusa 27 7 25.9 20 74.1 . .
Contra Costa 1959 1392 71.1 541 27.6 26 1.3
Del Norte 103 79 76.7 23 22.3 1 1.0
El Dorado 206 132 64.1 64 31.1 10 4.9
Fresno 2880 2312 80.3 535 18.6 33 1.1
Glenn 80 36 45.0 43 53.8 1 1.3
Humboldt 218 183 83.9 27 12.4 8 3.7
Imperial 330 261 79.1 63 19.1 6 1.8
Inyo 15 11 73.3 4 26.7 . .
Kern 2874 2571 89.5 230 8.0 73 2.5
Kings 292 211 72.3 73 25.0 8 2.7
Lake 181 120 66.3 54 29.8 7 3.9
Lassen 87 45 51.7 39 44.8 3 3.4
Los Angeles 29242 25149 86.0 3251 11.1 842 2.9
Madera 292 164 56.2 127 43.5 1 0.3
Marin 88 57 64.8 28 31.8 3 3.4
Mariposa 45 23 51.1 21 46.7 1 2.2
Mendocino 307 223 72.6 74 24.1 10 3.3
Merced 527 351 66.6 166 31.5 10 1.9
Modoc 19 10 52.6 9 47.4 . .
Mono 4 2 50.0 2 50.0 . .
Monterey 476 387 81.3 71 14.9 18 3.8
Napa 125 83 66.4 40 32.0 2 1.6
Nevada 95 73 76.8 21 22.1 1 1.1
Orange 3208 2367 73.8 746 23.3 95 3.0
Placer 385 199 51.7 180 46.8 6 1.6
Plumas 39 17 43.6 21 53.8 1 2.6
Riverside 4721 3624 76.8 1019 21.6 78 1.7
Sacramento 4440 3286 74.0 1032 23.2 122 2.7
San Benito 82 35 42.7 47 57.3 . .
San Bernardino 5187 3920 75.6 1120 21.6 147 2.8
San Diego 6068 5184 85.4 449 7.4 435 7.2
San Francisco 2050 994 48.5 991 48.3 65 3.2
San Joaquin 1633 1334 81.7 272 16.7 27 1.7
San Luis Obispo 310 235 75.8 57 18.4 18 5.8
San Mateo 499 291 58.3 197 39.5 11 2.2
Santa Barbara 353 252 71.4 93 26.3 8 2.3
Santa Clara 2183 1435 65.7 631 28.9 117 5.4
Santa Cruz 315 241 76.5 63 20.0 11 3.5
Shasta 551 461 83.7 74 13.4 16 2.9
Sierra 12 1 8.3 11 91.7 . .
Siskiyou 135 80 59.3 49 36.3 6 4.4
Solano 662 532 80.4 116 17.5 14 2.1
Sonoma 507 356 70.2 134 26.4 17 3.4
Stanislaus 648 520 80.2 115 17.7 13 2.0
Sutter 223 114 51.1 106 47.5 3 1.3
Tehama 181 129 71.3 48 26.5 4 2.2
Trinity 36 22 61.1 11 30.6 3 8.3
Tulare 1129 880 77.9 220 19.5 29 2.6
Tuolumne 147 93 63.3 45 30.6 9 6.1
Ventura 710 594 83.7 90 12.7 26 3.7
Yolo 439 135 30.8 297 67.7 7 1.6
Yuba 211 74 35.1 137 64.9 . .
Unknown 115 . . 115 100.0 . .

This monthly caseload includes children whose out of home placement record was closed, but whose placement episode record remained open for reasons deemed necessary by the social worker.
CDSS-Research and Development Division
CWS/CMS1a-Release Date: 07/01/2005