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

County Total In
County		 %
In
County		 Out
of
County		 %
Out
of
County		 Out
of
State		 %
Out
of
State
California 77521 60482 78.0 14997 19.3 2042 2.6
Alameda 2899 1589 54.8 1223 42.2 87 3.0
Alpine 1 0 0 0 0 1 100.0
Amador 35 20 57.1 15 42.9 0 0
Butte 735 590 80.3 132 18.0 13 1.8
Calaveras 106 66 62.3 35 33.0 5 4.7
Colusa 45 17 37.8 28 62.2 0 0
Contra Costa 1721 1252 72.7 444 25.8 25 1.5
Del Norte 113 94 83.2 17 15.0 2 1.8
El Dorado 224 146 65.2 65 29.0 13 5.8
Fresno 2571 2123 82.6 417 16.2 31 1.2
Glenn 87 47 54.0 39 44.8 1 1.1
Humboldt 266 232 87.2 24 9.0 10 3.8
Imperial 289 228 78.9 58 20.1 3 1.0
Inyo 18 13 72.2 5 27.8 0 0
Kern 2529 2208 87.3 250 9.9 71 2.8
Kings 317 220 69.4 96 30.3 1 0.3
Lake 173 110 63.6 59 34.1 4 2.3
Lassen 62 37 59.7 24 38.7 1 1.6
Los Angeles 26191 22753 86.9 2791 10.7 647 2.5
Madera 328 183 55.8 143 43.6 2 0.6
Marin 85 67 78.8 16 18.8 2 2.4
Mariposa 58 27 46.6 29 50.0 2 3.4
Mendocino 294 189 64.3 92 31.3 13 4.4
Merced 650 408 62.8 232 35.7 10 1.5
Modoc 16 8 50.0 8 50.0 0 0
Mono 6 2 33.3 4 66.7 0 0
Monterey 456 390 85.5 45 9.9 21 4.6
Napa 121 87 71.9 33 27.3 1 0.8
Nevada 109 73 67.0 34 31.2 2 1.8
Orange 3032 2240 73.9 721 23.8 71 2.3
Placer 369 203 55.0 159 43.1 7 1.9
Plumas 43 30 69.8 13 30.2 0 0
Riverside 5254 3935 74.9 1215 23.1 104 2.0
Sacramento 4622 3500 75.7 1035 22.4 87 1.9
San Benito 75 28 37.3 47 62.7 0 0
San Bernardino 4938 3792 76.8 1017 20.6 129 2.6
San Diego 5750 4970 86.4 430 7.5 350 6.1
San Francisco 1874 854 45.6 953 50.9 67 3.6
San Joaquin 1680 1344 80.0 312 18.6 24 1.4
San Luis Obispo 380 273 71.8 89 23.4 18 4.7
San Mateo 485 296 61.0 179 36.9 10 2.1
Santa Barbara 509 377 74.1 128 25.1 4 0.8
Santa Clara 2102 1451 69.0 581 27.6 70 3.3
Santa Cruz 351 265 75.5 75 21.4 11 3.1
Shasta 519 431 83.0 75 14.5 13 2.5
Sierra 11 1 9.1 10 90.9 0 0
Siskiyou 143 89 62.2 44 30.8 10 7.0
Solano 576 445 77.3 120 20.8 11 1.9
Sonoma 507 359 70.8 141 27.8 7 1.4
Stanislaus 525 418 79.6 101 19.2 6 1.1
Sutter 171 68 39.8 96 56.1 7 4.1
Tehama 232 167 72.0 64 27.6 1 0.4
Trinity 36 26 72.2 10 27.8 0 0
Tulare 1094 849 77.6 225 20.6 20 1.8
Tuolumne 172 98 57.0 63 36.6 11 6.4
Ventura 653 528 80.9 102 15.6 23 3.5
Yolo 457 160 35.0 289 63.2 8 1.8
Yuba 243 106 43.6 135 55.6 2 0.8
Unknown 2 0 0 2 100.0 0 0
Unknown 211 0 0 208 98.6 3 1.4

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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