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Statistics on children, youth and families in Louisiana from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Agenda for Children
Definition and Source
PROVIDER
Definition
Number - children entering foster care during a calendar year.
Rate - the number of children entering foster care during a calendar year per 1,000 children ages 0-17.
Rate - the number of children entering foster care during a calendar year per 1,000 children ages 0-17.
Data Source
Agenda for Children's analysis of data provided by the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services, by special request, 2011-2019 - Puzzanchera, C., Sladky, A. and Kang, W. (2021). "Easy Access to Juvenile Populations: 1990-2020," 2020-2023 U.S. Census Bureau, Census Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2024 estimates.
Notes
Data is reported according to the location of court of entry into foster care.
Note that the parish location data was missing for a small number of children each year, and a very small (<5) number of children in foster care have cases that originated in other states. As a result, the statewide total is larger than the sum of data from all parishes.
Data are unduplicated, so if a child entered and exited foster care multiple times over the course of the year, he/she would only be counted once.
Rates for data after 2019 are recalculated each year to reflect revisions in Census population estimates, and therefore may differ slightly from previously published rates.
LNE - "low number event" reflects a number or rate based on at least one but fewer than five events.
N.A. - Data are not available.
Note that the parish location data was missing for a small number of children each year, and a very small (<5) number of children in foster care have cases that originated in other states. As a result, the statewide total is larger than the sum of data from all parishes.
Data are unduplicated, so if a child entered and exited foster care multiple times over the course of the year, he/she would only be counted once.
Rates for data after 2019 are recalculated each year to reflect revisions in Census population estimates, and therefore may differ slightly from previously published rates.
LNE - "low number event" reflects a number or rate based on at least one but fewer than five events.
N.A. - Data are not available.
Last Updated
June 2025