Child Welfare Services/Case Management System
Children in Out of Home Placements
Supervised by Welfare, by Placement
October 2005

County Total In
County		 %
In
County		 Out
of
County		 %
Out
of
County		 Out
of
State		 %
Out
of
State
California 80125 62827 78.4 15207 19.0 2091 2.6
Alameda 2982 1635 54.8 1258 42.2 89 3.0
Alpine 5 4 80.0 0 0 1 20.0
Amador 32 19 59.4 13 40.6 0 0
Butte 770 633 82.2 121 15.7 16 2.1
Calaveras 101 61 60.4 35 34.7 5 5.0
Colusa 49 23 46.9 26 53.1 0 0
Contra Costa 1758 1270 72.2 462 26.3 26 1.5
Del Norte 119 97 81.5 20 16.8 2 1.7
El Dorado 228 153 67.1 67 29.4 8 3.5
Fresno 2632 2158 82.0 444 16.9 30 1.1
Glenn 97 49 50.5 47 48.5 1 1.0
Humboldt 250 217 86.8 24 9.6 9 3.6
Imperial 298 233 78.2 63 21.1 2 0.7
Inyo 24 19 79.2 5 20.8 0 0
Kern 2641 2332 88.3 241 9.1 68 2.6
Kings 298 205 68.8 92 30.9 1 0.3
Lake 161 103 64.0 53 32.9 5 3.1
Lassen 78 43 55.1 34 43.6 1 1.3
Los Angeles 27866 24217 86.9 2963 10.6 686 2.5
Madera 310 175 56.5 134 43.2 1 0.3
Marin 85 64 75.3 18 21.2 3 3.5
Mariposa 51 26 51.0 24 47.1 1 2.0
Mendocino 291 193 66.3 88 30.2 10 3.4
Merced 613 402 65.6 202 33.0 9 1.5
Modoc 21 13 61.9 8 38.1 0 0
Mono 6 2 33.3 4 66.7 0 0
Monterey 471 401 85.1 48 10.2 22 4.7
Napa 127 90 70.9 37 29.1 0 0
Nevada 103 73 70.9 28 27.2 2 1.9
Orange 3134 2315 73.9 751 24.0 68 2.2
Placer 357 205 57.4 147 41.2 5 1.4
Plumas 43 26 60.5 17 39.5 0 0
Riverside 5272 3998 75.8 1178 22.3 96 1.8
Sacramento 4657 3556 76.4 1017 21.8 84 1.8
San Benito 80 33 41.3 47 58.8 0 0
San Bernardino 5035 3843 76.3 1053 20.9 139 2.8
San Diego 5889 5092 86.5 427 7.3 370 6.3
San Francisco 1895 859 45.3 978 51.6 58 3.1
San Joaquin 1759 1421 80.8 312 17.7 26 1.5
San Luis Obispo 412 307 74.5 88 21.4 17 4.1
San Mateo 465 295 63.4 161 34.6 9 1.9
Santa Barbara 503 366 72.8 133 26.4 4 0.8
Santa Clara 2130 1478 69.4 568 26.7 84 3.9
Santa Cruz 362 287 79.3 67 18.5 8 2.2
Shasta 544 444 81.6 87 16.0 13 2.4
Sierra 10 0 0 10 100.0 0 0
Siskiyou 149 91 61.1 49 32.9 9 6.0
Solano 587 457 77.9 122 20.8 8 1.4
Sonoma 510 359 70.4 144 28.2 7 1.4
Stanislaus 564 455 80.7 102 18.1 7 1.2
Sutter 191 83 43.5 101 52.9 7 3.7
Tehama 233 170 73.0 62 26.6 1 0.4
Trinity 30 21 70.0 9 30.0 0 0
Tulare 1142 902 79.0 219 19.2 21 1.8
Tuolumne 161 94 58.4 55 34.2 12 7.5
Ventura 642 525 81.8 90 14.0 27 4.2
Yolo 436 146 33.5 282 64.7 8 1.8
Yuba 230 89 38.7 140 60.9 1 0.4
Unknown 2 0 0 2 100.0 0 0
Unknown 234 0 0 230 98.3 4 1.7

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.
CDSS-Research and Development Division
CWS/CMS1a