California Northern District Bankruptcy Court Filing Statistics

The California Northern division covers all of Northwestern California. The court has offices in Oakland, San Jose, Santa Rosa, and San Francisco. For more information about this court, please visit www.canb.uscourts.gov. The court's address is:

Following are quarterly bankruptcy filing statistics for the California Northern 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 Northern 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 20%.
• From July 2011 to June 3012 Chapter 13 bankruptcy filings decreased by 17%.
• Of the 30,080 consumer bankruptcies filed in the California Northern bankruptcy district, 62% were Chapter 7 bankruptcies and 38% were Chapter 13 bankruptcies.

Business Bankruptcy Filing Statistics

The following table shows the number of business bankruptcies filed in the California Northern 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 12%.
• From July 2011 to June 3012 Chapter 11 business bankruptcy filings decreased by 29%.
• From July 2011 to June 3012 Chapter 12 business bankruptcy filings increased by 500%.
• From July 2011 to June 3012 Chapter 13 business bankruptcy filings decreased by 8%.
• Of the 1,183 business bankruptcies filed in the California Northern bankruptcy district, 69% were Chapter 7 bankruptcies, 15% were Chapter 11 bankruptcies, 2% were Chapter 12 bankruptcies, and 14% were Chapter 13 bankruptcies.