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

County Total In
County		 %
In
County		 Out
of
County		 %
Out
of
County		 Out
of
State		 %
Out
of
State
California 76008 59050 77.7 14909 19.6 2049 2.7
Alameda 2713 1453 53.6 1172 43.2 88 3.2
Amador 33 21 63.6 12 36.4 0 0
Butte 731 567 77.6 149 20.4 15 2.1
Calaveras 91 57 62.6 34 37.4 0 0
Colusa 53 20 37.7 33 62.3 0 0
Contra Costa 1575 1133 71.9 423 26.9 19 1.2
Del Norte 109 90 82.6 19 17.4 0 0
El Dorado 234 138 59.0 76 32.5 20 8.5
Fresno 2448 2052 83.8 366 15.0 30 1.2
Glenn 111 57 51.4 52 46.8 2 1.8
Humboldt 282 243 86.2 28 9.9 11 3.9
Imperial 361 266 73.7 87 24.1 8 2.2
Inyo 14 11 78.6 3 21.4 0 0
Kern 2363 2099 88.8 194 8.2 70 3.0
Kings 340 236 69.4 102 30.0 2 0.6
Lake 209 142 67.9 63 30.1 4 1.9
Lassen 63 40 63.5 22 34.9 1 1.6
Los Angeles 25493 22091 86.7 2824 11.1 578 2.3
Madera 326 166 50.9 159 48.8 1 0.3
Marin 83 66 79.5 14 16.9 3 3.6
Mariposa 53 26 49.1 24 45.3 3 5.7
Mendocino 306 179 58.5 110 35.9 17 5.6
Merced 623 420 67.4 192 30.8 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 443 364 82.2 48 10.8 31 7.0
Napa 106 68 64.2 30 28.3 8 7.5
Nevada 87 57 65.5 28 32.2 2 2.3
Orange 3221 2302 71.5 838 26.0 81 2.5
Placer 352 218 61.9 130 36.9 4 1.1
Plumas 71 40 56.3 29 40.8 2 2.8
Riverside 5622 4331 77.0 1172 20.8 119 2.1
Sacramento 4555 3366 73.9 1096 24.1 93 2.0
San Benito 72 24 33.3 46 63.9 2 2.8
San Bernardino 4604 3506 76.2 959 20.8 139 3.0
San Diego 5523 4768 86.3 405 7.3 350 6.3
San Francisco 1765 780 44.2 927 52.5 58 3.3
San Joaquin 1558 1246 80.0 284 18.2 28 1.8
San Luis Obispo 425 310 72.9 95 22.4 20 4.7
San Mateo 461 276 59.9 177 38.4 8 1.7
Santa Barbara 560 427 76.3 127 22.7 6 1.1
Santa Clara 2020 1381 68.4 577 28.6 62 3.1
Santa Cruz 313 226 72.2 77 24.6 10 3.2
Shasta 532 418 78.6 97 18.2 17 3.2
Sierra 8 0 0 8 100.0 0 0
Siskiyou 144 96 66.7 44 30.6 4 2.8
Solano 510 381 74.7 115 22.5 14 2.7
Sonoma 594 440 74.1 146 24.6 8 1.3
Stanislaus 523 414 79.2 102 19.5 7 1.3
Sutter 189 80 42.3 100 52.9 9 4.8
Tehama 260 188 72.3 68 26.2 4 1.5
Trinity 35 22 62.9 11 31.4 2 5.7
Tulare 1051 841 80.0 189 18.0 21 2.0
Tuolumne 147 87 59.2 53 36.1 7 4.8
Ventura 686 559 81.5 94 13.7 33 4.8
Yolo 450 153 34.0 286 63.6 11 2.4
Yuba 238 103 43.3 131 55.0 4 1.7
Unknown 251 0 0 250 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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