Child Welfare Services/Case Management System
Total Children in Supervised Out of Home Placements
By Placement - During February 2009

County Total In
County
%
In
County
Out
of
County
%
Out
of
County
Out
of
State
%
Out
of
State
California 76,673 58,099 75.8 16,322 21.3 2,252 2.9
Alameda 2,759 1,406 51.0 1,270 46.0 83 3.0
Amador 39 18 46.2 21 53.8 0 0
Butte 887 640 72.2 224 25.3 23 2.6
Calaveras 79 53 67.1 23 29.1 3 3.8
Colusa 39 11 28.2 28 71.8 0 0
Contra Costa 1,453 998 68.7 433 29.8 22 1.5
Del Norte 99 82 82.8 15 15.2 2 2.0
El Dorado 332 209 63.0 117 35.2 6 1.8
Fresno 2,732 2,365 86.6 351 12.8 16 0.6
Glenn 123 62 50.4 60 48.8 1 0.8
Humboldt 272 228 83.8 39 14.3 5 1.8
Imperial 496 297 59.9 188 37.9 11 2.2
Inyo 19 6 31.6 11 57.9 2 10.5
Kern 2,406 2,110 87.7 237 9.9 59 2.5
Kings 331 199 60.1 125 37.8 7 2.1
Lake 200 113 56.5 84 42.0 3 1.5
Lassen 98 49 50.0 49 50.0 0 0
Los Angeles 26,590 21,978 82.7 3,637 13.7 975 3.7
Madera 279 167 59.9 111 39.8 1 0.4
Marin 93 54 58.1 35 37.6 4 4.3
Mariposa 49 24 49.0 21 42.9 4 8.2
Mendocino 287 201 70.0 82 28.6 4 1.4
Merced 754 584 77.5 159 21.1 11 1.5
Modoc 18 12 66.7 6 33.3 0 0
Mono 9 6 66.7 3 33.3 0 0
Monterey 472 336 71.2 131 27.8 5 1.1
Napa 119 68 57.1 46 38.7 5 4.2
Nevada 77 50 64.9 27 35.1 0 0
Orange 3,303 2,239 67.8 994 30.1 70 2.1
Placer 332 174 52.4 153 46.1 5 1.5
Plumas 87 42 48.3 43 49.4 2 2.3
Riverside 4,669 3,631 77.8 938 20.1 100 2.1
Sacramento 4,805 3,551 73.9 1,126 23.4 128 2.7
San Benito 112 53 47.3 59 52.7 0 0
San Bernardino 4,417 3,442 77.9 869 19.7 106 2.4
San Diego 5,183 4,445 85.8 493 9.5 245 4.7
San Francisco 1,678 692 41.2 915 54.5 71 4.2
San Joaquin 1,579 1,147 72.6 376 23.8 56 3.5
San Luis Obispo 442 298 67.4 130 29.4 14 3.2
San Mateo 410 233 56.8 162 39.5 15 3.7
Santa Barbara 680 479 70.4 201 29.6 0 0
Santa Clara 1,807 1,177 65.1 559 30.9 71 3.9
Santa Cruz 345 254 73.6 85 24.6 6 1.7
Shasta 699 536 76.7 148 21.2 15 2.1
Sierra 7 0 0 7 100.0 0 0
Siskiyou 202 138 68.3 56 27.7 8 4.0
Solano 443 333 75.2 103 23.3 7 1.6
Sonoma 568 385 67.8 168 29.6 15 2.6
Stanislaus 646 493 76.3 143 22.1 10 1.5
Sutter 149 63 42.3 81 54.4 5 3.4
Tehama 278 196 70.5 81 29.1 1 0.4
Trinity 29 13 44.8 16 55.2 0 0
Tulare 1,024 813 79.4 196 19.1 15 1.5
Tuolumne 116 67 57.8 44 37.9 5 4.3
Ventura 739 624 84.4 98 13.3 17 2.3
Yolo 389 160 41.1 222 57.1 7 1.8
Yuba 182 95 52.2 84 46.2 3 1.6
Unknown 242 0 0 239 98.8 3 1.2

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-Administration Division
CWS/CMS1
Effective July 1, 2007, the CWS/CMS 1, 1a, 1b, 1c have been revised to best reflect the number of children in out-of-home placement.