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States (with D.C.) where case-level eviction data is public statewide
Eviction Research Network · National
The State of Eviction Data
Who collects America's eviction records — and where the map goes dark.
No federal system counts evictions. What exists is a patchwork built by courts, universities, legal aid, and nonprofits: 6 states publish case-level data statewide, 36 publish only aggregate counts, and in 3 states no source — state, local, or national — publishes any current eviction data at all. This atlas maps every active source we could verify, how each collects, how current it is, whether addresses and names are available — and, where nothing exists, what it would take to build it.
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States where the public gets aggregate counts only — no cases, no addresses
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States with no current public eviction data from any source: Alabama, Iowa, South Dakota
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Jurisdictions where pre-court eviction notices are recorded by no one
Figure I
An eviction leaves three paper trails. Almost all data follows one of them.
Each stage of an eviction is recorded — if it is recorded at all — by a different custodian. Where a state sits on this page is mostly a question of which of these three records anyone bothered to collect.
NoticesBefore court
Custodian: usually nobody
The pay-or-quit notice is served landlord-to-tenant; in 49 of 51 jurisdictions no government body ever sees it, so informal evictions are invisible. Exceptions exist only where law mandates filing: D.C. requires notices be filed with the Rent Administrator, San Francisco and Los Angeles require copies to their housing agencies (both publish them as open data), and Hawaiʻi's Act 57 routed nonpayment notices through mediation centers.
FilingsThe court case
Custodian: the courts
The workhorse record — nearly every dataset on this page is built from court dockets. Collection runs through four doors: bulk-data agreements with a unified court system, scraping public case portals, records requests to clerks, or buying from commercial vendors. In 18 states someone is already collecting filings; in most others one of those doors is open but unused.
Writs & lockoutsEnforcement
Custodian: sheriffs, constables, marshals
The writ and the executed lockout measure completed displacement — filings overcount it, and only enforcement records show it. Courts log writ issuance; the executing officer holds the lockout record, reachable mainly through public-records requests office by office. Just 5 jurisdictions have this systematically collected; it is the least-gathered record in the country.
Figure II
What the public can get today, state by state.
Each tile grades the best publicly reachable, currently maintained eviction data from state or local sources — switch views to see the smallest public geography's detail: whether property addresses or party names are anywhere in it, and how fresh the data runs. Hover for each state's best source; click to jump to its full entry. A bar under the abbreviation marks the eleven states joining New America's Eviction Data Response Network, whose pipelines are funded for 2026–2028 but not yet publishing.
Figure III
The national collectors.
Four ongoing efforts work above the state level. None covers the whole country; together they are the closest thing the United States has to national eviction statistics.
LSC Civil Court Data Initiative — Eviction Tracker
Legal Services Corporation
Aggregate eviction-filing counts, weekly and monthly since 2016, for the counties it tracks in 32 states plus Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (per the July 2026 download; the site text still says 30). Coverage within a state is partial — Texas, for instance, shows 13 of 254 counties tracked.
Granularity: county & state counts; no addresses or names public · How: data-sharing agreements with courts, plus scraping of public court sites · Access: open CSV downloads and dashboard; case-level (parties, events; PII withheld) by data-sharing agreement · Currency: dashboard updated July 13, 2026; bulk CSVs ran through Sept 2025 at verification
Eviction Lab — Eviction Tracking System
Princeton University
Monthly filing counts for 11 full states and 42 cities, published as census-tract or ZIP CSVs, with data through July 2026. Arkansas was added as a full state between this atlas's July sweep and its August re-check, which matters because Arkansas publishes nothing statewide of its own. A separate national dataset covers 2000–2018 (block-group smallest; re-based to 2020 boundaries in Dec 2024) and has not been extended.
Granularity: tract/ZIP aggregate counts · How: bulk court records, portal scraping, in-court collection, and purchases from LexisNexis and AIRS · Access: open downloads · Currency: updated August 1, 2026
New America — Eviction Data Response Network
Future of Land and Housing program
The newest entrant: backed by a $3.1 million, three-year Ballmer Group investment (announced Sept 10, 2025, with Pritzker Children's Initiative support), New America announced on June 1, 2026 an 11-state 2026–2028 cohort — Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Washington, home to 26 million renters — each receiving technical assistance and a grant of up to $150,000, contingent on a dollar-for-dollar match, to build state eviction-data pipelines from court and administrative records. (New America does not publish the individual awards; New Jersey's, announced by its Department of Community Affairs on June 2, 2026, was $100,000, matched in full.) It follows a nine-site inaugural cohort (2024–2025); grantees include the NYU Furman Center and the University of Washington's Housing Futures Center.
Status: pipelines funded, not yet publishing — marked on the map as data-in-progress
NCSC Court Statistics Project
National Center for State Courts
The longest-running series: annual landlord-tenant caseloads reported by state judiciaries, published at state level only (its Civil Case Trends report, Oct 2024, covers 2018–2022 — roughly 1.4 million filings across 27 comparable states, still 21% below 2018). NCSC's separate Eviction Diversion Initiative collects program data from courts in 17 states and D.C., not filings.
Granularity: state totals · How: judiciary self-reporting · Access: open reports and dashboards
Also in the field. The Eviction Research Network (this site) maintains eight state and metro profiles — Washington and Minnesota current into 2026 — built variously from state civil-legal-aid compilations, LSC case-level data, court records, and sheriff lockout files. The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project documents displacement at city scale (Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle). Stout produces right-to-counsel evaluations for individual jurisdictions rather than a public tracker. The Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey — the only recurring federal measure, and self-reported eviction risk rather than records — ended in September 2024 and relaunched as HTOPS in January 2025. And two federal reports frame the gap this page maps: HUD's 2021 feasibility study told Congress a national eviction database could be built but needs authorization and funding, and GAO concluded in 2024 (GAO-24-106637) that national eviction data remain "limited and challenging to collect." Commercial vendors — LexisNexis Risk Solutions and the tenant-screening firm AIRS (now part of CIC) — hold vast eviction files and have supplied academic projects, but sell access.
Figure IV · State by state
Every state's sources, detail, and gaps.
Collected by names the kind of organization behind each state's best public product, and Where to get it links straight to it — an open download, a dashboard, or a request or purchase where that is the only route. Click any row for the full entry: every source with links and methods, what the state's own courts publish, and the three-trail collection assessment. The N·F·W chips grade collection feasibility for notices · filings · writs: already collected · easy · moderate · hard. Addresses and names describe the best public product; several states hold richer data non-publicly, noted in the entries.
| State | Public data | Best current public source | Collected by | Where to get it | Smallest geo | Addr | Names | Data thru | N·F·W |
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05 · Filling the gaps
Where nothing is public, collection is usually one decision away.
The six states with no current state-or-local public product are not equally dark. LSC's national tracker still publishes counts for the counties it covers in Arkansas, Kansas, and Montana, and in August 2026 the Eviction Lab began tracking Arkansas as a full state at census-tract scale, which is better coverage than most states manage for themselves. What separates collected states from dark ones is rarely technology; it is whether one office says yes.
The pattern worth copying. Almost every well-lit state got there one of three ways: a law made the courts publish (Colorado's SB24-064 monthly dashboards; Maryland's 2022 case-level mandate; Massachusetts' c.239 §15 monthly reports; D.C.'s notice-filing requirement — and California's pending SB 1160, passed by the Senate 39–0 in May 2026, would join them); a court system opened its data (New York's OCA case-level extracts; Alaska's monthly case list; Indiana's bulk-data program); or an outside institution built the pipeline (UF's Shimberg Center in Florida, Boise State in Idaho, CT Fair Housing Center, the NAACP's litigation-won feed in South Carolina). For states on this page's dark end, the three-trail assessments in each entry name the office that could flip the switch.
Beyond the atlas
The records are only part of the story.
Why filing counts can't be compared naively across states, what an eviction does to a family, and how the process works stage by stage: What You Should Know About Eviction, ERN's primer. How fast the clock these records measure actually runs in each state: State Eviction Timeframes. And what the data is for: in ERN's Housing Precarity Risk Model, filing and enforcement records feed neighborhood-level eviction-risk prediction — the difference between counting displacement and preventing it.
Methodology & sources
This page presents the Eviction Research Network's eviction data atlas: a July 2026 census of who collects and publishes U.S. eviction court data, revised August 2026, conducted under evidence-only rules — every source was fetched live, and no source is listed from memory or secondary description alone. The atlas catalogues 200 sources across all 50 states and D.C., plus the national programs in Figure III.
How states are graded
- Case-level statewide — a currently maintained, publicly reachable product publishes case-level records covering the state (however de-identified). Counts statewide — only aggregate filing counts are public statewide, from any active source including the state judiciary. Local only — current public data exists for some metros or counties but nothing statewide. None current — no active state-or-local public product; a ° marks states where only a frozen one-time report or dead dashboard remains.
- Tiers grade public reachability, not existence: data held privately, sold, restricted to members, or available only on request does not raise a state's tier, but appears in its entry.
- Addresses / names / smallest geography describe the bulk-accessible public product, not what a one-case-at-a-time lookup portal shows; per-case portals appear instead in the collection assessments as scraping pathways.
- Feasibility grades (notices · filings · writs): already collected — an active collector produces this record at meaningful coverage; easy — obtainable without new infrastructure (a published series or a single records request); moderate — sustained but routine work (portal scraping, a manageable set of office requests, a paid bulk feed); hard — no centralized custodian, or access requires motions, litigation, or a law change.
Verification (July 2026)
Findings went through four checks. Each state was researched independently with required fetch-verified citations; states that came back empty were re-searched adversarially from different angles (both survivors — Alabama and South Dakota — held). The twenty sources claiming 2026-current data were re-fetched to confirm their latest visible data date (nineteen matched; Arizona's dashboard blocks automated readers and is flagged, not assumed). The New America announcement was verified against six primary sources. Finally, all 373 cited URLs were link-checked; four dead links belong to efforts already recorded as discontinued and are not hyperlinked, and government pages that block automated fetching (about fifteen, mostly court Power BI dashboards) were verified through their published PDFs, data files, or archived copies and marked in the dataset. California's court-data facts were verified directly against ERN's California research files rather than re-collected.
Revision history
August 4, 2026. The four national programs and all 373 cited URLs were re-checked live; the 200 state and local sources were not re-swept and carry forward from July. Three things moved. The Eviction Lab added Arkansas as a full tracked state (10 states to 11) and now runs through July 2026, which materially improves a state that publishes nothing statewide of its own. Two cited evidence pages went dead, Georgetown McCourt's D.C. news release and UNC Charlotte's Urban Institute story; both were citations rather than live data products, so no state's grade changed. And New America's per-state award was corrected: the program offers grants of up to $150,000 against a dollar-for-dollar match, not a flat $100,000, which was New Jersey's individual award and the only one publicly disclosed. Separately, seven states' "data thru" values were corrected where the derivation had read a report's publication date, a site-capture date, or a data span's start year as though it were the date the data ends (Hawaiʻi, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Wisconsin were overstated to 2026; Pennsylvania was understated, and is current only at county scale through Allegheny County's daily dashboard).
What this page does not claim
A state's tier is not a judgment of any organization's quality, and absence of a source means we could not verify one, not that none can exist — this is exactly the kind of census that goes stale, which is why the byline dates it. Filing counts from different states are not comparable without process context (see the primer). Territories are not yet covered.
Cite this work
Download the dataset: ern_eviction_data_atlas_2026-08.csv — every source with coverage, granularity, geography, addresses/names availability, currency, cadence, method, access, and link. The full research record (per-state findings with pinpoint evidence URLs, verification passes, and the three-trail assessments) ships with the dataset repository. Suggested citation:
Thomas, Tim, and the Eviction Research Network. (2026). The state of eviction data: A U.S. eviction data atlas (August 2026 revision) [Data set]. Eviction Research Network, University of California, Berkeley.
@misc{ern_eviction_data_atlas_2026,
author = {Thomas, Tim and {Eviction Research Network}},
title = {The State of Eviction Data: A U.S. Eviction Data Atlas},
year = {2026},
note = {Census compiled July 2026, revised August 2026. Every source verified live; see methodology.}
}