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CPS Children in Care During Fiscal Year 2009
County | Child Population |
Children in DFPS Legal Responsibility | Point of Prevalence** | Children Entering Subsitute- Care (Total Removals) | Children in Substitute Care*** | Children in Foster Care* |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anderson | 11,504 | 127 | 11.0 | 40 | 125 | 99 |
Andrews | 3,837 | 29 | 7.6 | 14 | 25 | 10 |
Angelina | 22,648 | 118 | 5.2 | 22 | 113 | 86 |
Aransas | 5,038 | 65 | 12.9 | 27 | 56 | 45 |
Archer | 2,202 | 2 | 0.9 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Armstrong | 537 | 1 | 1.9 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Atascosa | 13,399 | 155 | 11.6 | 32 | 150 | 82 |
Austin | 6,760 | 29 | 4.3 | 9 | 27 | 13 |
Bailey | 2,182 | 38 | 17.4 | 6 | 36 | 30 |
Bandera | 4,277 | 60 | 14.0 | 9 | 59 | 37 |
Bastrop | 22,312 | 190 | 8.5 | 75 | 188 | 124 |
Baylor | 788 | 10 | 12.7 | 3 | 10 | 7 |
Bee | 7,647 | 80 | 10.5 | 40 | 81 | 56 |
Bell | 73,969 | 907 | 12.3 | 346 | 874 | 533 |
Bexar | 421,591 | 4,579 | 10.9 | 1,278 | 4,501 | 3,246 |
Blanco | 2,215 | 7 | 3.2 | 0 | 7 | 5 |
Borden | 118 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bosque | 4,175 | 18 | 4.3 | 6 | 18 | 11 |
Bowie | 21,419 | 204 | 9.5 | 74 | 202 | 128 |
Brazoria | 79,132 | 364 | 4.6 | 99 | 351 | 243 |
Brazos | 36,515 | 241 | 6.6 | 66 | 234 | 136 |
Brewster | 1,990 | 10 | 5.0 | 0 | 10 | 7 |
Briscoe | 421 | 6 | 14.3 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
Brooks | 2,528 | 42 | 16.6 | 7 | 41 | 34 |
Brown | 9,391 | 175 | 18.6 | 52 | 174 | 117 |
Burleson | 4,548 | 42 | 9.2 | 10 | 43 | 15 |
Burnet | 9,260 | 113 | 12.2 | 32 | 114 | 72 |
Caldwell | 10,356 | 150 | 14.5 | 34 | 147 | 94 |
Calhoun | 5,937 | 19 | 3.2 | 0 | 19 | 11 |
Callahan | 3,101 | 21 | 6.8 | 8 | 18 | 15 |
Cameron | 132,382 | 552 | 4.2 | 226 | 542 | 459 |
Camp | 3,362 | 60 | 17.8 | 24 | 58 | 27 |
Carson | 1,485 | 14 | 9.4 | 4 | 15 | 9 |
Cass | 6,624 | 88 | 13.3 | 30 | 84 | 38 |
Castro | 2,649 | 14 | 5.3 | 1 | 13 | 14 |
Chambers | 8,654 | 39 | 4.5 | 17 | 40 | 23 |
Cherokee | 12,774 | 97 | 7.6 | 41 | 87 | 63 |
Childress | 1,759 | 25 | 14.2 | 0 | 22 | 17 |
Clay | 2,377 | 17 | 7.2 | 3 | 18 | 15 |
Cochran | 1,072 | 10 | 9.3 | 1 | 7 | 5 |
Coke | 798 | 1 | 1.3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Coleman | 2,160 | 49 | 22.7 | 19 | 47 | 41 |
Collin | 205,478 | 465 | 2.3 | 113 | 436 | 331 |
Collingsworth | 685 | 9 | 13.1 | 4 | 9 | 2 |
Colorado | 5,261 | 19 | 3.6 | 3 | 18 | 15 |
Comal | 23,058 | 154 | 6.7 | 75 | 152 | 78 |
Comanche | 3,288 | 19 | 5.8 | 1 | 18 | 15 |
Concho | 525 | 9 | 17.1 | 1 | 9 | 7 |
Cooke | 9,833 | 76 | 7.7 | 22 | 66 | 47 |
Coryell | 17,576 | 174 | 9.9 | 62 | 160 | 96 |
Cottle | 396 | 2 | 5.1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Crane | 1,119 | 1 | 0.9 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Crockett | 1,048 | 14 | 13.4 | 2 | 11 | 9 |
Crosby | 2,116 | 32 | 15.1 | 19 | 33 | 23 |
Culberson | 832 | 2 | 2.4 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Dallam | 1,890 | 24 | 12.7 | 1 | 22 | 13 |
Dallas | 658,483 | 2,992 | 4.5 | 1,019 | 3,006 | 2,041 |
Dawson | 3,875 | 17 | 4.4 | 6 | 17 | 10 |
Deaf Smith | 6,487 | 43 | 6.6 | 9 | 44 | 35 |
Delta | 1,136 | 18 | 15.8 | 8 | 18 | 16 |
Denton | 173,876 | 451 | 2.6 | 122 | 427 | 284 |
Dewitt | 4,646 | 38 | 8.2 | 5 | 31 | 27 |
Dickens | 448 | 5 | 11.2 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
Dimmit | 3,177 | 69 | 21.7 | 12 | 72 | 44 |
Donley | 741 | 6 | 8.1 | 1 | 7 | 7 |
Duval | 3,830 | 41 | 10.7 | 8 | 35 | 20 |
Eastland | 4,226 | 41 | 9.7 | 12 | 36 | 27 |
Ector | 37,839 | 310 | 8.2 | 89 | 301 | 207 |
Edwards | 462 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ellis | 40,909 | 186 | 4.5 | 64 | 181 | 116 |
El Paso | 224,462 | 659 | 2.9 | 178 | 644 | 516 |
Erath | 8,770 | 54 | 6.2 | 14 | 52 | 36 |
Falls | 4,535 | 12 | 2.6 | 2 | 12 | 10 |
Fannin | 8,187 | 71 | 8.7 | 9 | 72 | 57 |
Fayette | 5,273 | 69 | 13.1 | 28 | 65 | 34 |
Fisher | 847 | 9 | 10.6 | 0 | 9 | 8 |
Floyd | 2,337 | 23 | 9.8 | 2 | 20 | 20 |
Foard | 336 | 1 | 3.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Fort Bend | 135,413 | 295 | 2.2 | 128 | 293 | 200 |
Franklin | 2,194 | 11 | 5.0 | 3 | 11 | 7 |
Freestone | 4,704 | 23 | 4.9 | 8 | 25 | 21 |
Frio | 4,800 | 82 | 17.1 | 18 | 82 | 42 |
Gaines | 4,889 | 24 | 4.9 | 9 | 22 | 7 |
Galveston | 71,099 | 377 | 5.3 | 132 | 359 | 185 |
Garza | 1,267 | 6 | 4.7 | 1 | 6 | 6 |
Gillespie | 4,535 | 53 | 11.7 | 22 | 54 | 22 |
Glasscock | 381 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Goliad | 1,670 | 4 | 2.4 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Gonzales | 5,308 | 45 | 8.5 | 0 | 44 | 30 |
Gray | 5,101 | 87 | 17.1 | 27 | 82 | 64 |
Grayson | 28,321 | 204 | 7.2 | 38 | 190 | 141 |
Gregg | 30,598 | 283 | 9.2 | 82 | 286 | 227 |
Grimes | 6,033 | 52 | 8.6 | 21 | 52 | 37 |
Guadalupe | 29,951 | 118 | 3.9 | 35 | 113 | 56 |
Hale | 11,057 | 163 | 14.7 | 27 | 152 | 113 |
Hall | 999 | 10 | 10.0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Hamilton | 1,792 | 19 | 10.6 | 12 | 18 | 16 |
Hansford | 1,585 | 1 | 0.6 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Hardeman | 1,045 | 5 | 4.8 | 0 | 6 | 5 |
Hardin | 12,905 | 68 | 5.3 | 16 | 66 | 50 |
Harris | 1,070,831 | 6,944 | 6.5 | 1,866 | 6,837 | 4,122 |
Harrison | 15,271 | 104 | 6.8 | 36 | 101 | 80 |
Hartley | 1,208 | 4 | 3.3 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
Haskell | 1,329 | 5 | 3.8 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
Hays | 34,046 | 154 | 4.5 | 54 | 151 | 88 |
Hemphill | 807 | 2 | 2.5 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Henderson | 18,783 | 266 | 14.2 | 96 | 238 | 170 |
Hidalgo | 252,901 | 704 | 2.8 | 225 | 680 | 553 |
Hill | 9,088 | 63 | 6.9 | 21 | 61 | 53 |
Hockley | 6,615 | 108 | 16.3 | 16 | 97 | 68 |
Hood | 10,261 | 54 | 5.3 | 12 | 54 | 39 |
Hopkins | 8,683 | 86 | 9.9 | 30 | 78 | 56 |
Houston | 4,929 | 31 | 6.3 | 7 | 30 | 23 |
Howard | 7,837 | 118 | 15.1 | 45 | 112 | 78 |
Hudspeth | 1,001 | 3 | 3.0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Hunt | 21,521 | 239 | 11.1 | 105 | 239 | 161 |
Hutchinson | 5,889 | 63 | 10.7 | 19 | 62 | 49 |
Irion | 295 | 2 | 6.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Jack | 1,958 | 5 | 2.6 | 1 | 5 | 7 |
Jackson | 3,745 | 24 | 6.4 | 7 | 25 | 16 |
Jasper | 9,023 | 51 | 5.7 | 17 | 47 | 37 |
Jeff Davis | 385 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jefferson | 63,079 | 256 | 4.1 | 71 | 252 | 204 |
Jim Hogg | 1,509 | 16 | 10.6 | 3 | 16 | 8 |
Jim Wells | 12,305 | 141 | 11.5 | 41 | 125 | 74 |
Johnson | 43,440 | 293 | 6.7 | 110 | 294 | 237 |
Jones | 4,545 | 17 | 3.7 | 5 | 18 | 17 |
Karnes | 3,280 | 18 | 5.5 | 1 | 18 | 17 |
Kaufman | 26,189 | 144 | 5.5 | 51 | 149 | 78 |
Kendall | 7,169 | 21 | 2.9 | 4 | 17 | 12 |
Kenedy | 115 | 2 | 17.4 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Kent | 118 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kerr | 9,542 | 202 | 21.2 | 58 | 193 | 143 |
Kimble | 992 | 15 | 15.1 | 7 | 13 | 13 |
King | 74 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kinney | 787 | 1 | 1.3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Kleberg | 8,875 | 126 | 14.2 | 49 | 120 | 87 |
Knox | 987 | 7 | 7.1 | 3 | 7 | 7 |
Lamar | 12,565 | 87 | 6.9 | 27 | 84 | 57 |
Lamb | 4,296 | 63 | 14.7 | 5 | 67 | 55 |
Lampasas | 5,535 | 60 | 10.8 | 12 | 59 | 51 |
Lasalle | 1,875 | 28 | 14.9 | 1 | 27 | 13 |
Lavaca | 4,316 | 7 | 1.6 | 0 | 7 | 6 |
Lee | 4,333 | 49 | 11.3 | 19 | 48 | 28 |
Leon | 3,515 | 38 | 10.8 | 3 | 33 | 23 |
Liberty | 21,344 | 172 | 8.1 | 49 | 162 | 96 |
Limestone | 5,618 | 50 | 8.9 | 20 | 49 | 34 |
Lipscomb | 692 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Live Oak | 2,381 | 3 | 1.3 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
Llano | 3,234 | 44 | 13.6 | 10 | 45 | 41 |
Loving | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lubbock | 63,936 | 955 | 14.9 | 211 | 895 | 676 |
Lynn | 1,737 | 4 | 2.3 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Madison | 2,920 | 48 | 16.4 | 29 | 49 | 40 |
Marion | 2,238 | 22 | 9.8 | 8 | 22 | 15 |
Martin | 1,576 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mason | 744 | 9 | 12.1 | 4 | 8 | 8 |
Matagorda | 10,609 | 37 | 3.5 | 11 | 33 | 18 |
Maverick | 18,632 | 46 | 2.5 | 5 | 46 | 31 |
Mcculloch | 1,980 | 24 | 12.1 | 1 | 20 | 14 |
Mclennan | 57,387 | 451 | 7.9 | 97 | 433 | 278 |
Mcmullen | 126 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Medina | 11,742 | 161 | 13.7 | 31 | 158 | 81 |
Menard | 505 | 7 | 13.9 | 4 | 7 | 7 |
Midland | 34,237 | 189 | 5.5 | 34 | 186 | 103 |
Milam | 6,854 | 113 | 16.5 | 24 | 108 | 51 |
Mills | 1,114 | 4 | 3.6 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Mitchell | 1,759 | 3 | 1.7 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Montague | 4,444 | 42 | 9.5 | 14 | 41 | 25 |
Montgomery | 114,616 | 859 | 7.5 | 317 | 822 | 451 |
Moore | 6,486 | 9 | 1.4 | 3 | 10 | 7 |
Morris | 3,049 | 34 | 11.2 | 19 | 34 | 17 |
Motley | 260 | 3 | 11.5 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Nacogdoches | 14,978 | 147 | 9.8 | 64 | 141 | 109 |
Navarro | 13,547 | 161 | 11.9 | 21 | 158 | 128 |
Newton | 3,407 | 18 | 5.3 | 0 | 17 | 13 |
Nolan | 4,026 | 28 | 7.0 | 2 | 29 | 21 |
Nueces | 87,371 | 775 | 8.9 | 303 | 721 | 550 |
Ochiltree | 2,931 | 10 | 3.4 | 4 | 11 | 9 |
Oldham | 497 | 4 | 8.0 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
Orange | 20,806 | 133 | 6.4 | 39 | 115 | 98 |
Palo Pinto | 6,965 | 63 | 9.0 | 12 | 61 | 45 |
Panola | 5,361 | 26 | 4.8 | 8 | 23 | 21 |
Parker | 27,526 | 92 | 3.3 | 22 | 87 | 69 |
Parmer | 3,044 | 33 | 10.8 | 5 | 34 | 29 |
Pecos | 4,375 | 45 | 10.3 | 13 | 45 | 32 |
Polk | 10,250 | 118 | 11.5 | 33 | 111 | 73 |
Potter | 35,029 | 294 | 8.4 | 71 | 294 | 248 |
Presidio | 2,677 | 5 | 1.9 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
Rains | 2,242 | 22 | 9.8 | 8 | 20 | 15 |
Randall | 25,338 | 403 | 15.9 | 137 | 386 | 272 |
Reagan | 1,001 | 9 | 9.0 | 1 | 9 | 6 |
Real | 591 | 6 | 10.2 | 0 | 6 | 5 |
Red River | 3,364 | 32 | 9.5 | 11 | 31 | 17 |
Reeves | 3,361 | 20 | 6.0 | 8 | 19 | 6 |
Refugio | 2,034 | 2 | 1.0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Roberts | 175 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Robertson | 4,456 | 30 | 6.7 | 3 | 28 | 10 |
Rockwall | 20,102 | 46 | 2.3 | 15 | 39 | 21 |
Runnels | 2,847 | 37 | 13.0 | 10 | 38 | 26 |
Rusk | 11,716 | 67 | 5.7 | 28 | 69 | 36 |
Sabine | 2,050 | 3 | 1.5 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
San Augustine | 2,079 | 4 | 1.9 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
San Jacinto | 5,484 | 67 | 12.2 | 29 | 63 | 49 |
San Patricio | 21,629 | 79 | 3.7 | 24 | 71 | 54 |
San Saba | 1,386 | 18 | 13.0 | 0 | 18 | 15 |
Schleicher | 740 | 9 | 12.2 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
Scurry | 4,025 | 23 | 5.7 | 5 | 20 | 18 |
Shackelford | 800 | 2 | 2.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Shelby | 6,937 | 52 | 7.5 | 16 | 51 | 36 |
Sherman | 809 | 7 | 8.7 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
Smith | 51,094 | 330 | 6.5 | 119 | 333 | 227 |
Somervell | 2,124 | 4 | 1.9 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
Starr | 23,950 | 92 | 3.8 | 35 | 94 | 79 |
Stephens | 2,396 | 23 | 9.6 | 12 | 23 | 17 |
Sterling | 296 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stonewall | 338 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sutton | 1,135 | 6 | 5.3 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
Swisher | 2,354 | 21 | 8.9 | 0 | 21 | 20 |
Tarrant | 474,768 | 1,966 | 4.1 | 591 | 1,892 | 1,565 |
Taylor | 33,995 | 238 | 7.0 | 80 | 230 | 171 |
Terrell | 178 | 3 | 16.9 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Terry | 3,623 | 41 | 11.3 | 10 | 42 | 30 |
Throckmorton | 383 | 1 | 2.6 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Titus | 9,387 | 110 | 11.7 | 51 | 106 | 51 |
Tom Green | 25,926 | 424 | 16.4 | 97 | 418 | 285 |
Travis | 218,088 | 1,233 | 5.7 | 369 | 1,218 | 868 |
Trinity | 3,115 | 43 | 13.8 | 15 | 43 | 32 |
Tyler | 4,714 | 19 | 4.0 | 6 | 15 | 13 |
Upshur | 9,084 | 101 | 11.1 | 47 | 96 | 57 |
Upton | 871 | 11 | 12.6 | 0 | 11 | 6 |
Uvalde | 8,709 | 93 | 10.7 | 17 | 87 | 40 |
Val Verde | 15,177 | 52 | 3.4 | 20 | 50 | 33 |
Van Zandt | 12,527 | 147 | 11.7 | 69 | 137 | 98 |
Victoria | 24,213 | 196 | 8.1 | 30 | 190 | 154 |
Walker | 11,422 | 92 | 8.1 | 26 | 92 | 55 |
Waller | 10,416 | 65 | 6.2 | 30 | 70 | 29 |
Ward | 2,928 | 15 | 5.1 | 10 | 14 | 12 |
Washington | 7,365 | 27 | 3.7 | 4 | 30 | 25 |
Webb | 89,801 | 507 | 5.6 | 102 | 497 | 388 |
Wharton | 11,437 | 40 | 3.5 | 24 | 37 | 21 |
Wheeler | 1,095 | 14 | 12.8 | 0 | 13 | 12 |
Wichita | 31,130 | 279 | 9.0 | 71 | 262 | 221 |
Wilbarger | 3,645 | 29 | 8.0 | 2 | 29 | 21 |
Willacy | 6,641 | 88 | 13.3 | 15 | 83 | 76 |
Williamson | 102,401 | 547 | 5.3 | 179 | 522 | 389 |
Wilson | 11,127 | 14 | 1.3 | 6 | 13 | 9 |
Winkler | 1,962 | 16 | 8.2 | 6 | 12 | 5 |
Wise | 15,671 | 58 | 3.7 | 20 | 53 | 42 |
Wood | 7,941 | 118 | 14.9 | 44 | 119 | 72 |
Yoakum | 2,299 | 26 | 11.3 | 0 | 26 | 18 |
Young | 4,257 | 31 | 7.3 | 7 | 29 | 18 |
Zapata | 4,807 | 57 | 11.9 | 13 | 56 | 46 |
Zavala | 3,867 | 50 | 12.9 | 8 | 43 | 27 |
Unknown | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Out of State | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
State Total | 6,510,210 | 40,840 | 6.3 | 12,107 | 39,733 | 27,422* |
* Children in foster care is by living arrangement and will not equal children in paid foster care.
** Point of Prevalence: Rate of annual number of children in DFPS legal responsibility in Fiscal Year 2009 per
1,000 children in the child population.”
*** Substitute care and foster care include children ages 0 to 20. Children age out of DFPS legal responsibility at age 18 but may remain in foster care. Youth ages 18 and over who are in foster care are counted in subtitute care.