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Bankruptcy Tools & Calculators

Name: U.S. Bankruptcy Filing Statistics (tools hub)
Creator: PlainBankruptcy
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Tools built on the same Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC) data behind every page on this site: 498,492 filings reported nationwide in FY2024.

498,492
Total filings FY2024: 59.6%
Filed as Chapter 7: 10
Fiscal years covered

Available tools

Chapter 7 Eligibility Estimator

Check whether your household income falls below your state’s median, the first hurdle in the means test that determines Chapter 7 eligibility.

What the eligibility estimator's numbers sit inside

498,492 bankruptcy cases were filed nationwide in FY2024, split by chapter. The Chapter 7 eligibility tool above only covers the largest slice of this mix — Chapter 13, 11, and 12 filings follow different rules the tool does not estimate.

Chapter 7 (liquidation) 296,845 filings (60%) Chapter 13 (repayment plan) 192,249 filings (39%) Chapter 11 (business reorg.) 8,923 filings (2%) Chapter 12 (family farmer/fisherman) 192 filings (0%)

Methodology

Tool inputs and reference figures are drawn directly from Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC) Judicial Caseload Statistics and U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey median household income tables. See our methodology page for exact sources and release vintages.

Download the AOUSC state-filings extract cited on this page: aousc-state-filings.csv (same CSV as /statistics/, CC0).

Compiled by PlainBankruptcy

Every figure on PlainBankruptcy is rendered directly from federal court source data, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of FY2024.