State foster stats lookup
Query federal AFCARS jurisdiction tables for entries, exits, in-care population, reunification and adoption rates, and median months in care. Then open the full state profile.
Featured jurisdictions (live data; no script required)
California
45,924
Grade C · 49.6% reunif.
Texas
21,358
Grade C · 40.4% reunif.
Florida
22,493
Grade B · 42.5% reunif.
New York
14,134
Grade F · 39.1% reunif.
Pennsylvania
12,465
Grade C · 42.0% reunif.
How this tool works
This lookup queries the latest available federal AFCARS submission for the state you select. The Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System collects child-level data from every U.S. state and territory and aggregates it into state-level performance metrics published by the ACF Children's Bureau. Numbers reflect federal fiscal year totals (October 1 through September 30).
What the metrics mean
- Entries: Children newly placed into foster care during the fiscal year.
- Exits: Children who left foster care during the year (reunified, adopted, aged out, transferred to relative custody, or other).
- In care (Sep 30): Snapshot of children in care at the close of the fiscal year.
- Reunification rate: Share of exits returned to the biological family.
- Adoption rate: Share of exits finalized as adoption.
- Aging-out rate: Share of exits where the youth turned 18+ without permanency.
- Median months in care: Median length of stay among children exiting care in FY2022.
For the complete FY2013–FY2022 count series and placement-setting breakdown, visit the corresponding state page. For source and calculation details, see our methodology page.
According to the U.S. Children's Bureau (Administration for Children and Families), foster-care counts and discharge outcomes are published in AFCARS workbooks and jurisdiction reports. Every figure on PlainFoster is rebuilt from those federal tables; no number is typed in by an editor. This lookup is populated from the reproducible FY2022 AFCARS state table and jurisdiction-report parser. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-07-30. AFCARS figures are federal fiscal-year foster-care counts and discharge rates from jurisdiction reports - not child-welfare quality rankings, court-performance scores, case-level advice, or real-time caseload status.