--- title: "Demand per law office, by state (data) | Probative Growth" url: https://probativegrowth.com/data/demand-per-law-office/ lang: en-US alternate: https://probativegrowth.com/es/datos/demanda-por-oficina-de-abogados/ source: the same page, converted from its HTML at build time --- 1. [Home](https://probativegrowth.com/) 2. [Data](https://probativegrowth.com/data/) 3. Demand per office Data · Demand per office # 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? {#what-h} 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](https://probativegrowth.com/data/#status-codes). ## Where does the data come from? {#from-h} 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 - [Probative, five public datasets joined by state (methods and data)](https://probativegrowth.com/research/benchmarks/demand-per-law-office/): 334 records ## What does a record look like? {#sample-h} United States: 1,929 residents per law office, national total of the 51 states (177,138 private law-office establishments, 2026-Q1). Status P · checked October 30, 2026 · source: [Probative, five public datasets joined by state (methods and data)](https://probativegrowth.com/research/benchmarks/demand-per-law-office/) Texas: 3.1 bankruptcy cases (12 months ending 2026-09-30) per law office, in the middle third (13,905 private law-office establishments, 2026-Q1). Status P · checked October 30, 2026 · source: [Probative, five public datasets joined by state (methods and data)](https://probativegrowth.com/research/benchmarks/demand-per-law-office/) New York: demand per law office ranks 46 of 51 states on the four core ratios, in the lowest third (11,626 private law-office establishments). Status P · checked October 30, 2026 · source: [Probative, five public datasets joined by state (methods and data)](https://probativegrowth.com/research/benchmarks/demand-per-law-office/) 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`** -: US or STATE-, 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? {#api-h} Ask an AI assistant: add `https://probativegrowth.com/mcp/demand-per-law-office` as an MCP connector (no sign-in), or the main server `https://probativegrowth.com/mcp` for every dataset. Setup for each app is on [the API and MCP page](https://probativegrowth.com/resources/rules-api/). **`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"). Or read the static files, with no key and no usage cap: - [Index and endpoints](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/demand-per-law-office/index.json) `/data/v1/demand-per-law-office/index.json` - [One group (STATE-AK-BANKRUPTCY shown)](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/demand-per-law-office/groups/STATE-AK-BANKRUPTCY.json) `/data/v1/demand-per-law-office/groups/{group}.json` - [Confirmed changes](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/demand-per-law-office/changes.json) `/data/v1/demand-per-law-office/changes.json` - [OpenAPI description](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/demand-per-law-office/openapi.json) `/data/v1/demand-per-law-office/openapi.json` - [API reference, every file](https://probativegrowth.com/resources/rules-api/reference/) `/resources/rules-api/reference/` ## How to cite this dataset {#cite-h} You can reuse, adapt and republish this data, including commercially, under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The only condition is that you credit Probative and link to the source. **Version** 1.0.0, released November 1, 2026 **DOI** [10.5281/zenodo.23851281](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23851281) **Every version** [10.5281/zenodo.23851280](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23851280) (always points to the newest) **License** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Download the data - [CSV: demand-per-law-office.csv](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/demand-per-law-office/demand-per-law-office.csv) 168 KB · one row per record (columns in README.txt) - [JSON: demand-per-law-office.json](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/demand-per-law-office/demand-per-law-office.json) 254 KB · every record with its sources Free, no email or login. The files are hosted on this site and [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/records/23851281), a public research archive. 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 Credit line for a chart, table or article 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. Add to a reference manager (Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote) - [RIS (EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley)](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/demand-per-law-office/cite.ris) - [BibTeX (LaTeX)](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/demand-per-law-office/cite.bib) - [CITATION.cff (GitHub, Zenodo)](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/demand-per-law-office/CITATION.cff) - [codemeta.json](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/demand-per-law-office/codemeta.json) - [SVG badge with the DOI](https://probativegrowth.com/data/badge/demand-per-law-office.svg) 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? {#chg-h} - **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](https://probativegrowth.com/research/benchmarks/demand-per-law-office/)) The full log is in [changes.json](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/demand-per-law-office/changes.json). ## What are the limits? {#limits-h} - 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](https://probativegrowth.com/data/corrections/). **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. Probative is a marketing firm, not a law firm. Found a wrong value? 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