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Eviction filings, county by county

How many eviction cases are filed in each county every year, how that moved before, during and after the pandemic, and how it compares with the number of renter households. We read the Legal Services Corporation's Civil Court Data Initiative files cell for cell, keep its public-domain licence on every record, add counties up to states, and tie the monthly file to LSC's weekly file.

Checked October 29, 2026 · CC BY 4.0 · Not legal advice

What is in this dataset?

Eviction filings (cases) by county and month from the Legal Services Corporation's Civil Court Data Initiative Eviction Tracker, which collects residential eviction filings from state and local courts: 1,464 counties and 34 states and territories, January 2016 through September 2025. Each record carries the filings of every full calendar year the county reports, the last twelve months where all twelve are present, filings per 100 renter households, the poverty rate and the latest month against the county's own historical average. Counties carry the Census FIPS code. LSC's data are released under CC0 1.0. The states and territories in the file are the ones LSC reports; the US record totals a year or month only where every one of them reports it.

Use it to size landlord-tenant and housing-defense work in the counties a firm serves: how many eviction cases are filed there, how that has moved over the years and through the pandemic, and how filings compare with the number of renter households. Agents can look up a state and its counties, compare up to ten states, or search a county by name.

Records
1,499
Look up by
35
state
Primary source
1,499

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

Where does the data come from?

Read cell for cell from LSC's two monthly CSV downloads on civilcourtdata.lsc.gov (county and state), after checking that LSC's Terms of Use still dedicate the data to the public domain under CC0 1.0. County FIPS codes are checked against the shared crosswalks (Connecticut's eight retired counties keep their old codes). A calendar year is shown only when all twelve months are in LSC's file; a missing month is never filled in. A gate downloads both files again and re-parses every cell with a separate reader, checks that counties add up to no more than their state, ties the monthly state file to LSC's weekly state file, and re-reads fifty random county-months.

Period covered
January 1, 2016 to September 2025
Places
The whole US, states and counties
How often we refresh it
Every quarter
Records read
October 29, 2026

Official sources

  • Legal Services Corporation, Civil Court Data Initiative, by bulk download. LSC Terms of Use (https://www.lsc.gov/terms-use): "Unless otherwise noted, data on the Site is available with a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication CC0 1.0 Universal license." The Eviction Tracker page names no other licence. LSC asks that users cite: Civil Court Data Initiative. Legal Services Corporation, 2022..
  • Legal Services Corporation (Terms of Use), by official web pages. LSC Terms of Use (https://www.lsc.gov/terms-use): "Unless otherwise noted, data on the Site is available with a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication CC0 1.0 Universal license." The Eviction Tracker page names no other licence. LSC asks that users cite: Civil Court Data Initiative. Legal Services Corporation, 2022..

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 27 main columns means
jurisdiction
Two-letter code of the state, DC or territory, or US
level
county, state (states and territories LSC reports on) or us
county
5-digit county FIPS code (vintage 2025; Connecticut's retired counties keep their old codes); empty for other levels
countyName
County name as the Census Bureau writes it
stateName
State name
value
Eviction filings in the last twelve months where all twelve are present; otherwise the filings in the months LSC reports (unit says which)
unit
What the value counts
filings_2016
Eviction filings in calendar year 2016; empty unless all twelve months are in LSC's file
filings_2017
Eviction filings in calendar year 2017; empty unless all twelve months are in LSC's file
filings_2018
Eviction filings in calendar year 2018; empty unless all twelve months are in LSC's file
filings_2019
Eviction filings in calendar year 2019; empty unless all twelve months are in LSC's file
filings_2020
Eviction filings in calendar year 2020; empty unless all twelve months are in LSC's file
filings_2021
Eviction filings in calendar year 2021; empty unless all twelve months are in LSC's file
filings_2022
Eviction filings in calendar year 2022; empty unless all twelve months are in LSC's file
filings_2023
Eviction filings in calendar year 2023; empty unless all twelve months are in LSC's file
filings_2024
Eviction filings in calendar year 2024; empty unless all twelve months are in LSC's file
months_reported
Months with a filing count in LSC's file
first_month
First month in LSC's file (YYYY-MM)
last_month
Last month in LSC's file (YYYY-MM)
filings_total
Filings in all months reported
filings_last12
Filings in the twelve months through the latest month in LSC's files; empty unless all twelve are present
renter_households
Renter-occupied housing units, as LSC reports them (American Community Survey)
poverty_rate
Poverty rate in percent, as LSC reports it
filings_per_100_renters_last12
filings_last12 per 100 renter households
pct_of_historical_average
The latest month's filings as a percent of the county's own historical average for that month (LSC)
effectiveFrom
First day of the first month reported
effectiveTo
Last month reported

How do I use it in my own tools?

evictions_lookup
For one two-letter state code (or US): eviction filings by year in the state and every county in it that LSC reports, with filings per 100 renter households.
evictions_compare
The eviction filing records of up to 10 states (two-letter codes) or US side by side: filings by year, the last twelve months and filings per 100 renter households.
evictions_search
Eviction filing records whose text matches the words given, such as a county name ("Harris County"), a state name or a 5-digit county FIPS code.

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 October 29, 2026
Every version
10.5281/zenodo.23752995 (always points to the newest)
License
CC BY 4.0

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Suggested citation

Probative. (2026). Eviction filings by county and year (LSC Civil Court Data Initiative) (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23752996

Credit line for a chart, table or article

Source: Probative, Eviction filings by county and year (LSC Civil Court Data Initiative), version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23752996, licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Not legal advice. These are counts of eviction cases filed in court, kept for research and market sizing. A filing is not an eviction carried out, a finding against a tenant or a measure of need, and one household can be filed against more than once. Questions about an eviction are for a licensed attorney or a local legal aid office.

What changed recently?

  • 2026-10-29 · Monthly eviction filings from LSC's Civil Court Data Initiative for 1464 counties and 34 states and territories, through September 2025: 1,055,028 filings in the last 12 months. (source)

The full log is in changes.json.

What are the limits?

  • A filing is a case a landlord starts in court. It is not an eviction carried out, a ruling against a tenant or a count of people, and one household can be filed against more than once in a year.
  • The files cover the places where LSC has built court data feeds. A county missing here is not a county with no evictions, and the totals cannot be read as a national figure.
  • Courts differ in what they record as an eviction case, and some places move to or from the files over time. A sharp jump or drop can reflect a change in the court's record keeping and not a change in landlord behavior.
  • A calendar year is shown only when every month of it is in the file. Files for different places end in different months, so the latest twelve months is empty where a county stops earlier.
  • Renter household counts and poverty rates are LSC's, taken from the American Community Survey, and carry that survey's sampling error.
  • The data are released by LSC without charge for any use. We ask readers to cite the Civil Court Data Initiative of the Legal Services Corporation.
  • Records older than 120 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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