US National Bankruptcy Filing Trends by Chapter
PlainBankruptcy presents the multi-year national bankruptcy filing trend, broken out by Chapter 7, 11, 12, and 13, using Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts data.
Research
Original data research from the PlainBankruptcy. Every number here is pulled directly from our live database; nothing is hardcoded.
What can you learn from PlainBankruptcy research?
What this research covers
PlainBankruptcy connects national chapter trends, state filing rates, and filing volume across 90 federal judicial districts using Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts data; the state-rate analysis joins filings to Census population estimates.
- 10
- fiscal years in the national trend series
- 90
- federal judicial districts covered
- 3
- original analyses
These are descriptive filing statistics, not legal advice or predictions about an individual case.
Top 10 US States by Bankruptcy Filing Rate
PlainBankruptcy ranks US states by total bankruptcy filings per state population, using Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts data joined to Census state population estimates.
Top 10 US Bankruptcy Districts by Filing Volume
PlainBankruptcy ranks the 90 US Bankruptcy Court districts by total filings in the most recent reported fiscal year, using Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts data.
Download the AOUSC state-filings extract cited on this page: aousc-state-filings.csv (same CSV as /statistics/, CC0).