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Children in Foster Care (Number) – 2011

Data Provided by: Center for Public Policy Priorities

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Scale: 0 - 4,773


Texas	30,347
Anderson	106
Andrews	19
Angelina	75
Aransas	74
Archer	0
Armstrong	0
Atascosa	115
Austin	11
Bailey	24
Bandera	52
Bastrop	107
Baylor	1
Bee	53
Bell	600
Bexar	3,475
Blanco	7
Borden	0
Bosque	26
Bowie	89
Brazoria	242
Brazos	173
Brewster	6
Briscoe	0
Brooks	30
Brown	108
Burleson	23
Burnet	76
Caldwell	73
Calhoun	16
Callahan	28
Cameron	467
Camp	29
Carson	3
Cass	40
Castro	4
Chambers	32
Cherokee	108
Childress	19
Clay	10
Cochran	5
Coke	7
Coleman	39
Collin	321
Collingsworth	6
Colorado	22
Comal	151
Comanche	14
Concho	6
Cooke	68
Coryell	120
Cottle	0
Crane	3
Crockett	5
Crosby	17
Culberson	0
Dallam	8
Dallas	2,278
Dawson	16
Deaf Smith	31
Delta	4
Denton	407
DeWitt	27
Dickens	10
Dimmit	57
Donley	16
Duval	22
Eastland	28
Ector	294
Edwards	1
El Paso	583
Ellis	66
Erath	40
Falls	15
Fannin	33
Fayette	31
Fisher	5
Floyd	25
Foard	0
Fort Bend	147
Franklin	10
Freestone	22
Frio	45
Gaines	31
Galveston	173
Garza	18
Gillespie	45
Glasscock	0
Goliad	6
Gonzales	16
Gray	87
Grayson	126
Gregg	207
Grimes	23
Guadalupe	91
Hale	99
Hall	9
Hamilton	15
Hansford	3
Hardeman	6
Hardin	46
Harris	4,773
Harrison	98
Hartley	0
Haskell	6
Hays	104
Hemphill	1
Henderson	165
Hidalgo	768
Hill	36
Hockley	81
Hood	75
Hopkins	47
Houston	39
Howard	64
Hudspeth	3
Hunt	165
Hutchinson	23
Irion	6
Jack	6
Jackson	3
Jasper	34
Jeff Davis	0
Jefferson	246
Jim Hogg	2
Jim Wells	81
Johnson	306
Jones	9
Karnes	26
Kaufman	88
Kendall	30
Kenedy	1
Kent	0
Kerr	162
Kimble	17
King	0
Kinney	0
Kleberg	57
Knox	7
La Salle	16
Lamar	94
Lamb	33
Lampasas	35
Lavaca	6
Lee	53
Leon	17
Liberty	118
Limestone	33
Lipscomb	5
Live Oak	15
Llano	27
Loving	0
Lubbock	632
Lynn	8
Madison	18
Marion	13
Martin	1
Mason	5
Matagorda	28
Maverick	23
McCulloch	13
McLennan	368
McMullen	0
Medina	128
Menard	11
Midland	141
Milam	44
Mills	4
Mitchell	10
Montague	73
Montgomery	478
Moore	19
Morris	12
Motley	2
Nacogdoches	141
Navarro	77
Newton	17
Nolan	25
Nueces	543
Ochiltree	7
Oldham	1
Orange	169
Palo Pinto	60
Panola	28
Parker	61
Parmer	7
Pecos	24
Polk	92
Potter	278
Presidio	3
Rains	17
Randall	287
Reagan	5
Real	9
Red River	17
Reeves	12
Refugio	12
Roberts	0
Robertson	14
Rockwall	30
Runnels	30
Rusk	52
Sabine	15
San Augustine	1
San Jacinto	59
San Patricio	76
San Saba	5
Schleicher	2
Scurry	19
Shackelford	0
Shelby	55
Sherman	1
Smith	277
Somervell	10
Starr	93
Stephens	11
Sterling	0
Stonewall	0
Sutton	3
Swisher	18
Tarrant	1,628
Taylor	217
Terrell	0
Terry	34
Throckmorton	1
Titus	55
Tom Green	377
Travis	936
Trinity	32
Tyler	11
Upshur	34
Upton	7
Uvalde	60
Val Verde	29
Van Zandt	126
Victoria	138
Walker	55
Waller	48
Ward	5
Washington	24
Webb	466
Wharton	52
Wheeler	8
Wichita	232
Wilbarger	14
Willacy	62
Williamson	373
Wilson	25
Winkler	8
Wise	72
Wood	80
Yoakum	4
Young	43
Zapata	52
Zavala	37

Definitions: The number and rate per 1,000 of children, ages 0-17, in foster care.

Data Source: Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.

Footnotes: The term foster care refers to care given to children under the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services' (DFPS) legal responsibility who are placed in foster homes, foster group homes, institutions, residential treatment facilities, juvenile facilities, and whoa re in a placement paid by DFPS or some other public facility.

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Center for Public Policy Priorities 7020 Easy Wind Dr., Suite 200
Austin, TX 78752

512-320-0222 ext. 106
kidscount@cppp.org
http://www.cppp.org/kidscount

Frances Deviney, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate and Texas KIDS COUNT Director

The Center for Public Policy Priorities is a nonpartisan, nonprofit policy institute committed to improving public policies to better the economic and social conditions of low-and moderate-income Texans. To view the State of Texas Children data book, go to www.stateoftexaschildren.org.

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