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Children in Foster Care (Rate per 1,000 children ages 0-17) – 2011

Data Provided by: Center for Public Policy Priorities

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Scale: 0.0 - 23.0


Texas	4.6
Anderson	8.9
Andrews	4.7
Angelina	3.3
Aransas	14.5
Archer	0.0
Armstrong	0.0
Atascosa	9.0
Austin	1.7
Bailey	13.1
Bandera	12.6
Bastrop	5.3
Baylor	1.3
Bee	7.1
Bell	7.2
Bexar	7.9
Blanco	3.1
Borden	0.0
Bosque	6.2
Bowie	4.2
Brazoria	3.0
Brazos	4.5
Brewster	3.0
Briscoe	0.0
Brooks	13.6
Brown	11.2
Burleson	5.0
Burnet	7.7
Caldwell	7.2
Calhoun	2.6
Callahan	8.8
Cameron	3.4
Camp	8.5
Carson	2.0
Cass	5.9
Castro	1.9
Chambers	3.6
Cherokee	8.5
Childress	10.8
Clay	4.7
Cochran	6.0
Coke	9.2
Coleman	19.5
Collin	1.6
Collingsworth	9.1
Colorado	4.1
Comal	6.0
Comanche	4.3
Concho	11.7
Cooke	6.9
Coryell	6.6
Cottle	0.0
Crane	2.7
Crockett	4.7
Crosby	10.1
Culberson	0.0
Dallam	4.3
Dallas	3.4
Dawson	4.5
Deaf Smith	4.7
Delta	3.6
Denton	2.5
DeWitt	5.8
Dickens	22.2
Dimmit	21.3
Donley	21.7
Duval	7.0
Eastland	6.6
Ector	7.6
Edwards	2.3
El Paso	2.6
Ellis	1.6
Erath	4.3
Falls	3.5
Fannin	4.3
Fayette	5.7
Fisher	6.1
Floyd	13.4
Foard	0.0
Fort Bend	1.1
Franklin	4.4
Freestone	4.7
Frio	9.1
Gaines	6.0
Galveston	2.4
Garza	14.2
Gillespie	9.6
Glasscock	0.0
Goliad	3.5
Gonzales	2.9
Gray	16.9
Grayson	4.5
Gregg	6.5
Grimes	3.7
Guadalupe	2.9
Hale	9.0
Hall	9.0
Hamilton	7.8
Hansford	2.1
Hardeman	5.9
Hardin	3.7
Harris	4.3
Harrison	6.3
Hartley	0.0
Haskell	4.6
Hays	3.0
Hemphill	1.2
Henderson	9.1
Hidalgo	3.0
Hill	3.8
Hockley	12.2
Hood	7.1
Hopkins	5.3
Houston	7.9
Howard	8.3
Hudspeth	3.3
Hunt	7.8
Hutchinson	3.8
Irion	20.5
Jack	3.1
Jackson	0.8
Jasper	3.9
Jeff Davis	0.0
Jefferson	4.1
Jim Hogg	1.4
Jim Wells	6.7
Johnson	6.8
Jones	2.1
Karnes	7.6
Kaufman	3.3
Kendall	4.2
Kenedy	8.5
Kent	0.0
Kerr	18.2
Kimble	16.0
King	0.0
Kinney	0.0
Kleberg	6.9
Knox	7.0
La Salle	10.1
Lamar	7.5
Lamb	7.5
Lampasas	6.8
Lavaca	1.4
Lee	12.2
Leon	4.8
Liberty	5.8
Limestone	5.9
Lipscomb	7.0
Live Oak	6.2
Llano	8.8
Loving	0.0
Lubbock	9.3
Lynn	5.6
Madison	5.9
Marion	5.8
Martin	0.6
Mason	7.1
Matagorda	2.7
Maverick	1.2
McCulloch	6.2
McLennan	6.1
McMullen	0.0
Medina	11.1
Menard	23.0
Midland	3.9
Milam	6.3
Mills	3.3
Mitchell	5.7
Montague	15.9
Montgomery	4.1
Moore	3.2
Morris	3.9
Motley	7.9
Nacogdoches	9.4
Navarro	5.8
Newton	5.3
Nolan	6.9
Nueces	6.2
Ochiltree	2.4
Oldham	2.1
Orange	8.2
Palo Pinto	8.3
Panola	5.1
Parker	2.2
Parmer	2.5
Pecos	5.3
Polk	9.7
Potter	7.6
Presidio	1.1
Rains	8.2
Randall	11.2
Reagan	6.5
Real	14.6
Red River	5.4
Reeves	4.3
Refugio	7.0
Roberts	0.0
Robertson	3.1
Rockwall	1.5
Runnels	10.2
Rusk	4.6
Sabine	7.3
San Augustine	0.5
San Jacinto	9.7
San Patricio	3.6
San Saba	3.6
Schleicher	2.6
Scurry	4.6
Shackelford	0.0
Shelby	8.0
Sherman	1.3
Smith	5.2
Somervell	4.9
Starr	3.8
Stephens	4.5
Sterling	0.0
Stonewall	0.0
Sutton	2.6
Swisher	8.4
Tarrant	3.3
Taylor	6.3
Terrell	0.0
Terry	11.4
Throckmorton	2.5
Titus	6.0
Tom Green	14.3
Travis	4.0
Trinity	10.2
Tyler	2.4
Upshur	3.8
Upton	9.6
Uvalde	6.9
Val Verde	1.9
Van Zandt	10.1
Victoria	5.7
Walker	4.9
Waller	4.6
Ward	2.0
Washington	3.2
Webb	5.1
Wharton	4.6
Wheeler	7.3
Wichita	7.3
Wilbarger	3.7
Willacy	9.3
Williamson	3.4
Wilson	2.3
Winkler	4.9
Wise	5.0
Wood	9.8
Yoakum	1.6
Young	9.8
Zapata	11.0
Zavala	9.3

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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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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