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Demand per law office

How much legal demand there is for each law office, state by state: five public datasets joined by state, against 177,138 private law-office establishments in the 51 states.

Checked October 30, 2026 · CC BY 4.0 · Not legal advice

What is in this dataset?

Where there is the most legal demand for each law office. Five public datasets joined by state: private law-office establishments (2026 Q1, 177,138 in the 51 states) against residents, bankruptcy cases commenced (12 months ending 2026-09-30), fatal crashes (2024), divorces in the last 12 months and Spanish speakers with limited English (ACS 2020-2024), and eviction filings for the 23 states with recent eviction data. Each state is placed in the highest, middle or lowest third on every ratio and overall.

Use it to see where demand is high for each existing law office, so you know where a new market, a new practice area or more ad spend has the most demand behind it. A ratio is demand events divided by the state's law offices; the row says how many law offices it rests on.

Records
334
Look up by
334
group
Primary-source records
334

The letters are explained in what P, S, D and U mean.

Where does the data come from?

State records of five committed public datasets are joined by state code; each ratio is demand divided by law offices in integer arithmetic and rounded to one decimal; states are ranked on each ratio and placed in thirds; the overall third ranks the states on the sum of the four core ranks.

Period covered
2020 to 2026
Places
The whole US and states
How often we refresh it
Every quarter
Records read
October 30, 2026

The sources the records cite most

What does a record look like?

The full records add the dates, the quoted source text and every field in the CSV and JSON files below.

What each of the 14 main columns means
id
Stable row id
group
<area>-<measure>: US or STATE-<code>, then RESIDENTS, BANKRUPTCY, FATAL-CRASHES, DIVORCES, SPANISH-LEP, EVICTIONS or OVERALL
groupType
The measure (column key)
segment
US or the state code
areaType
us or state
value
The measure: a ratio rounded to one decimal (residents per office as a whole number), or the state's overall rank
unit
What value measures, with its period
tier
Third of states on this measure (highest third = most demand per law office); national total on the US rows; for evictions, a third of the states whose eviction data is recent
law_offices
Private law-office establishments, 2026 Q1 (the denominator of every ratio)
text
The row in one sentence
version
Dataset version
lastChecked
Date computed
sourceLabels
Source label
sourceUrls
Source URL

How do I use it in my own tools?

demand_lookup
For one group key (for example STATE-TX-BANKRUPTCY or US-RESIDENTS): the ratio, its unit and period, the third of states it falls in and the law offices it rests on.
demand_compare
The same fields for up to 10 groups side by side (for example the same measure in several states).
demand_search
Rows whose text matches the words given, such as a state ("Texas") or a tier ("highest third").

How to cite this dataset

You can reuse, adapt and republish this data, including commercially, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0). The only condition is that you credit Probative and link to the source.

Version
1.0.0, released November 1, 2026
Every version
10.5281/zenodo.23851280 (always points to the newest)
License
CC BY 4.0

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Suggested citation

Probative. (2026). Demand per law office, by state: residents, bankruptcy cases, fatal crashes, divorces, Spanish speakers and evictions for each law office (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23851281

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Source: Probative, Demand per law office, by state: residents, bankruptcy cases, fatal crashes, divorces, Spanish speakers and evictions for each law office, version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23851281, licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Not legal advice. These are counts from public datasets divided by the number of private law-office establishments; a law office is an establishment, not a lawyer, and a state with a high ratio is not necessarily short of lawyers.

What changed recently?

  • 2026-10-30 · Five public datasets joined by state: residents, bankruptcy cases, fatal crashes, divorces, Spanish speakers with limited English and eviction filings for each of the 177,138 private law offices in the 51 states, as ratios and thirds of states. (source)

The full log is in changes.json.

What are the limits?

  • Each row states how many law offices it rests on. The whole table is 177,138 law offices in the 51 states.
  • A ratio is a count of events (cases, crashes, divorces, residents) divided by the state's law-office establishments. It is not a count of lawyers or of unmet need.
  • Periods differ by measure and are stated: law offices 2026-Q1, bankruptcy cases to 2026-09-30, fatal crashes 2024, ACS 2020-2024; eviction filings only for the 23 states whose eviction data ends in 2025-06 or later.
  • Thirds rank the states against each other: the highest third has the most demand for each law office.
  • Records older than 130 days since their last check are marked stale in the files until we re-check them. Every confirmed error we fix is listed in the data corrections log.

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