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Bankruptcy in Arizona: market data
What public records say about the market for bankruptcy in Arizona: how much demand the courts and agencies count, how many law offices serve it, how many people need help in Spanish, and the ad rules that apply. Every number links to the record it comes from.
Demand: what courts and agencies count
Counts of filings, crashes, complaints and enforcement in the records each agency keeps. A count shows where problems were recorded, not how many people will hire a lawyer.
| Measure | Value | Period | Place | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business bankruptcy cases | 635 cases, 12 months | 12 months ending 2026-09-30 | Arizona state | bankruptcy v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23739952 record bankruptcy-04 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Chapter 13 bankruptcy cases | 2,308 cases, 12 months | 12 months ending 2026-09-30 | Arizona state | bankruptcy v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23739952 record bankruptcy-04 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases | 11,119 cases, 12 months | 12 months ending 2026-09-30 | Arizona state | bankruptcy v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23739952 record bankruptcy-04 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Bankruptcy cases filed | 13,768 cases, 12 months | 12 months ending 2026-09-30 | Arizona state | bankruptcy v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23739952 record bankruptcy-04 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| CFPB debt or credit management complaints | 83 complaints, 12 months | 12 months from 2025-10-01 | Arizona state | consumer-complaints v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23733731 record cfpb-az-debt-management · status P · checked 2026-10-27 |
| Business bankruptcy cases | 436 cases, 12 months | 12 months ending 2026-09-30 | District of Arizona federal district | bankruptcy v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23739952 record bankruptcy-az · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Chapter 13 bankruptcy cases | 2,303 cases, 12 months | 12 months ending 2026-09-30 | District of Arizona federal district | bankruptcy v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23739952 record bankruptcy-az · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases | 11,100 cases, 12 months | 12 months ending 2026-09-30 | District of Arizona federal district | bankruptcy v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23739952 record bankruptcy-az · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Bankruptcy cases filed | 13,548 cases, 12 months | 12 months ending 2026-09-30 | District of Arizona federal district | bankruptcy v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23739952 record bankruptcy-az · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
Rising or falling
The change between the last two periods each source publishes. No threshold and no smoothing.
| Measure | Before | Latest | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business bankruptcy cases Arizona · record bankruptcy-04 | 638 2026-06-30 | 635 2026-09-30 | falling (-0.5%) |
| Chapter 13 bankruptcy cases Arizona · record bankruptcy-04 | 2,205 2026-06-30 | 2,308 2026-09-30 | rising (+4.7%) |
| Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases Arizona · record bankruptcy-04 | 11,040 2026-06-30 | 11,119 2026-09-30 | rising (+0.7%) |
| Bankruptcy cases filed Arizona · record bankruptcy-04 | 13,595 2026-06-30 | 13,768 2026-09-30 | rising (+1.3%) |
| CFPB debt or credit management complaints Arizona · record cfpb-az-debt-management | 81 prior 12 months | 83 12 months from 2025-10-01 | rising (+2.5%) |
Lawyer supply
How many law offices and lawyers the federal statistics count here.
| Measure | Value | Period | Place | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New lawyers admitted | 965 lawyers a year | 2025 | Arizona state | bar-pipeline v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721443 record az-bar-pipeline · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Counties under 1 law office per 10,000 residents | 3 counties | 2026-Q1 | Arizona state | deserts v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721430 record deserts-04 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Counties with no law office | 1 counties | 2026-Q1 | Arizona state | deserts v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721430 record deserts-04 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Residents living in those low-office counties | 8 percent of residents | 2026-Q1 | Arizona state | deserts v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721430 record deserts-04 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Employer law firms | 2,995 firms | 2022 | Arizona state | law-firm-economy v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23739997 record lfe-az-all · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Receipts of employer law firms | 4,410,454,000 US dollars | 2022 | Arizona state | law-firm-economy v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23739997 record lfe-az-all · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Law offices per 10,000 residents | 5.15 per 10,000 residents | 2026-Q1 | Arizona state | law-offices v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721415 record law-offices-04 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Self-employed lawyers (nonemployer firms) | 4,787 firms | latest Nonemployer Statistics year | Arizona state | law-offices v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721415 record law-offices-04 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Private law offices | 3,928 establishments | 2026-Q1 | Arizona state | law-offices v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721415 record law-offices-04 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Lawyers employed (wage-earning, BLS OEWS) | 11,640 jobs | May 2025 | Arizona state | lawyer-wages v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23734840 record lawyer-wages:AZ:231011:2025 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Median annual wage of employed lawyers | 134,260 US dollars a year | May 2025 | Arizona state | lawyer-wages v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23734840 record lawyer-wages:AZ:231011:2025 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
Counties with the most demand per law office
Of the 25 counties in Arizona with the most bankruptcy cases filed, the ten with the most per private law office. Both counts are shown with their records.
| County | Demand | Law offices | Per office |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinal County, AZ | 1,287 record bankruptcy-04021 | 42 record law-offices-04021 | 30.64 |
| Santa Cruz County, AZ | 105 record bankruptcy-04023 | 9 record law-offices-04023 | 11.67 |
| Cochise County, AZ | 161 record bankruptcy-04003 | 17 record law-offices-04003 | 9.47 |
| La Paz County, AZ | 17 record bankruptcy-04012 | 2 record law-offices-04012 | 8.5 |
| Mohave County, AZ | 345 record bankruptcy-04015 | 47 record law-offices-04015 | 7.34 |
| Yuma County, AZ | 354 record bankruptcy-04027 | 50 record law-offices-04027 | 7.08 |
| Apache County, AZ | 34 record bankruptcy-04001 | 6 record law-offices-04001 | 5.67 |
| Graham County, AZ | 28 record bankruptcy-04009 | 6 record law-offices-04009 | 4.67 |
| Navajo County, AZ | 80 record bankruptcy-04017 | 18 record law-offices-04017 | 4.44 |
| Pima County, AZ | 1,844 record bankruptcy-04019 | 498 record law-offices-04019 | 3.7 |
Bankruptcy cases filed (bankruptcy v1.0.0, 12 months ending 2026-09-30) ÷ Private law offices (law-offices v1.0.0, 2026-Q1). ratio = bankruptcy.filings / law-offices.qcew_estabs, rounded to 2 decimals; ranked highest first, among the 25 units with the most demand. Units with zero supply are listed apart (ratio undefined); units without a published value are listed as missing.
Spanish-language demand
People who speak Spanish and speak English less than very well, and the lawyers who speak Spanish, from the Census Bureau survey (with margins of error).
| Measure | Value | Period | Place | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawyers who speak Spanish at home (ACS) | 1,729 ±388 lawyers | 2020-2024 | Arizona state | language v1.1.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23656758 record language:state:AZ:lawyers-spanish · status P · checked 2026-10-25 |
| Spanish speakers with limited English per Spanish-speaking lawyer | 253 ±56.8 people per lawyer | 2020-2024 | Arizona state | language v1.1.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23656758 record language:state:AZ:lep-per-spanish-lawyer · status P · checked 2026-10-25 |
| Spanish speakers with limited English (ACS) | 436,583 ±6,392 people age 5+ | 2020-2024 | Arizona state | language v1.1.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23656758 record language:state:AZ:spanish-lep · status P · checked 2026-10-25 |
| Spanish speakers with limited English | 436,583 ±7,242 people age 5+ | 2020-2024 | Arizona state | legal-need v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23741886 record legal-need-az · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
Ad rules that apply
The rules a law firm's ads in Arizona have to meet, summarized from the official texts. The full rules, with quotes, are on the state page.
| Topic | Status | What it says |
|---|---|---|
| Ad filing or review | P primary source | No filing or pre-approval of ads is required. The State Bar says it does not have to review ads first, though a voluntary review is available. Keeping copies is not required but is called a good idea. ERs 7.1-7.5 contain no filing clause. official source · rules v1.4.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23750572 · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Required content | P primary source | Any communication about a lawyer's services must include the name and contact information of at least one lawyer or law firm responsible for its content (ER 7.1(c)). Contact information can be an address, website, phone number or email. official source · rules v1.4.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23750572 · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Waiting periods for contact | P primary source | The rules set no waiting period. ER 7.3 bans live person-to-person solicitation for pay, with exceptions, and does not bar mail or email. A statute makes unlawful solicitation of a tort victim at the scene of an accident a class 1 misdemeanor (A.R.S. 13-2924). official source · rules v1.4.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23750572 · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Claims and results | P primary source | A lawyer may not make a false or misleading communication (ER 7.1). A lawyer may not state or imply being a certified specialist unless the lawyer meets Supreme Court Rule 44 (ER 7.1(b)); the bar says 'specialize' is allowed if true. official source · rules v1.4.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23750572 · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Paying for referrals | P primary source | ER 7.2 is reserved, so Arizona has no rule banning payment for a recommendation. The State Bar says lawyers may now pay referral fees to anyone, but cannot thank a referral source without the client's informed consent. official source · rules v1.4.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23750572 · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Call recording | P primary source | Arizona makes it a felony to intercept a wire or electronic communication to which one is not a party without the consent of either the sender or the receiver, so one participant's consent suffices. official source · rules v1.4.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23750572 · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Texting | P primary source | A seller or solicitor may not make a solicitation call or send a solicitation text to a number on the national do-not-call registry. A violation is an unlawful practice under A.R.S. official source · rules v1.4.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23750572 · checked 2026-10-28 |
| Ad filing or review | P primary source | Arizona: no filing or review of lawyer ads is required. official source · filing v1.2.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721409 · checked 2026-10-25 |
| Paying for referrals | P primary source | Only two or more firms jointly working on a matter may divide a client's fee; the firms must tell the client in writing how the fee will be divided and how responsibility will be divided, and the division of responsibility must be reasonable. official source · referral v1.1.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23747113 · checked 2026-10-27 |
Prices and pay (national)
| Measure | Value | Period | Place | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jobs in legal services (seasonally adjusted) | 1,249 thousand jobs | 2026-09 | United States United States | legal-prices v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23734854 record legal-prices:CES6054110001:2026-09 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| CPI-U: legal services | 230 index | 2026-09 | United States United States | legal-prices v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23734854 record legal-prices:CUUR0000SEGC01:2026-09 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
| PPI: offices of lawyers | 338 index | 2026-09 | United States United States | legal-prices v1.0.0 doi:10.5281/zenodo.23734854 record legal-prices:PCU541110541110:2026-09 · status P · checked 2026-10-28 |
What is missing
Datasets linked to this practice that have no figure here, and values the source withholds. We never fill these in.
- federal-filings-county (demand): no record for Arizona at this geography; the state or another geography may have one
- findings (demand): the dataset has no records for Arizona (it covers other places)
- firm-web-census (supply): the dataset has no records for Arizona (it covers other places)
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The rows behind this page, with every dataset, version, DOI, record id and check date.
Cite as: Probative Growth, Bankruptcy filings by chapter, court district, state and county, quarterly (U.S. Courts) v1.0.0 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23739952); The new-lawyer pipeline by jurisdiction: bar exam pass rates and new admissions, 2025 v1.0.0 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721443); CFPB complaints about debt collection, credit reporting and debt management, by state and month v1.0.0 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23733731); Legal deserts: law offices and lawyers per resident in every U.S. county v1.0.0 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721430); Spanish-speaking demand vs Spanish-speaking lawyer supply, by state and metro v1.1.0 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23656758); Law firm size, solos and receipts, by state: Census SUSB 2022, Nonemployer Statistics 2024 and Economic Census 2022 v1.0.0 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23739997); Law offices, jobs and pay by county, with solo-practice counts: BLS QCEW, Census CBP and Nonemployer Statistics v1.0.0 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23721415); Lawyer, paralegal and legal-staff pay by state and metro (BLS OEWS) v1.0.0 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23734840); Legal need by county: who may need a lawyer, from the American Community Survey v1.0.0 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23741886); Legal-services prices and jobs, monthly (BLS CPI, PPI and CES) v1.0.0 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23734854); CC BY 4.0. https://probativegrowth.com/markets/arizona/bankruptcy/
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