California Eastern District Bankruptcy Court Filing Statistics

The California Eastern division covers all of Eastern California. The court has offices in Sacramento and Fresno with outlying magistrate judges sitting in Yosemite, Redding, South Lake Tahoe and Bakersfield. For more information about this court, please visit www.caeb.uscourts.gov. The court's address is:

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Following are quarterly bankruptcy filing statistics for the California Eastern District Bankruptcy Court. These statistics are courtesy of the U.S. Courts website (www.uscourts.gov).

Consumer Bankruptcy Filing Statistics

This table shows the number of consumer bankruptcies filed in the California Eastern district bankruptcy court from July 1, 2011 through June 30 2012.

Consumer Bankruptcy Filing Summary

• From July 2011 to June 3012 Chapter 7 bankruptcy filings decreased by 14%.
• From July 2011 to June 3012 Chapter 13 bankruptcy filings decreased by 29%.
• Of the 41,662 consumer bankruptcies filed in the California Eastern bankruptcy district, 79% were Chapter 7 bankruptcies and 21% were Chapter 13 bankruptcies.

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Business Bankruptcy Filing Statistics

The following table shows the number of business bankruptcies filed in the California Eastern district bankruptcy court from July 1, 2011 through June 30 2012.

Business Bankruptcy Filing Summary

• From July 2011 to June 3012 Chapter 7 business bankruptcy filings decreased by 17%.
• From July 2011 to June 3012 Chapter 11 business bankruptcy filings decreased by 19%.
• From July 2011 to June 3012 Chapter 12 business bankruptcy filings increased by 114%.
• From July 2011 to June 3012 Chapter 13 business bankruptcy filings decreased by 12%.
• Of the 1,177 business bankruptcies filed in the California Eastern bankruptcy district, 71% were Chapter 7 bankruptcies, 13% were Chapter 11 bankruptcies, 3% were Chapter 12 bankruptcies, and 13% were Chapter 13 bankruptcies.