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Chapter 7 Closed Cases And Total Receipts By State

January 1, 1998 - December 31, 1998

Note: There are no USTP field offices in Washington, DC, Delaware, North Dakota, or Vermont. Accordingly, for purposes of the following table: Washington, DC is included with Virginia; Delaware is included with Pennsylvania; North Dakota is included with South Dakota; & Vermont is included with New York. Also, no figures are available for Alabama & North Carolina, in which bankruptcy cases are not currently administered by the U.S. Trustee Program.
 
Summary of Chapter 7 Statistics by State
State # of Cases Closed Total Receipts
ALASKA 34 2,711,732
ARIZONA 1,140 26,579,241
ARKANSAS 188 11,153,266
CALIFORNIA 2,627 298,925,256
COLORADO 673 22,759,766
CONNECTICUT 512 35,837,487
FLORIDA 4,382 69,616,198
GEORGIA 401 29,748,378
HAWAII 67 7,517,918
IDAHO 630 3,809,835
ILLINOIS 763 160,647,586
INDIANA 475 19,474,275
IOWA 677 6,007,754
KANSAS 954 8,090,129
KENTUCKY 543 16,316,305
LOUISIANA 1,693 29,000,459
MAINE 134 5,135,460
MARYLAND 287 17,381,087
MASSACHUSETTS 497 42,586,691
MICHIGAN 693 34,309,579
MINNESOTA 1,041 13,361,401
MISSISSIPPI 95 8,264,461
MISSOURI 563 13,828,395
MONTANA 192 3,729,927
NEBRASKA 158 6,701,324
NEVADA 926 17,670,061
NEW HAMPSHIRE 239 4,064,350
NEW JERSEY 546 47,572,636
NEW MEXICO 60 38,257,614
NEW YORK 1,786 108,116,864
OHIO 2164 39,575,771
OKLAHOMA 539 11,690,681
OREGON 723 25,524,227
PENNSYLVANIA 441 29,391,713
PUERTO RICO 123 7,334,265
RHODE ISLAND 65 4,905,263
SOUTH CAROLINA 175 10,867,222
SOUTH DAKOTA 413 11,767,895
TENNESSEE 358 18,891,338
TEXAS 1,203 234,446,628
UTAH 123 9,826,756
VIRGINIA 428 29,528,655
WASHINGTON 326 41,784,966
WEST VIRGINIA 90 6,639,524
WISCONSIN 313 13,717,740
WYOMING 264 3,090,727
National Total: 30,724 1,608,168,806

Receipts = Funds administered by Chapter 7 Trustees in 1998 closed cases.

Updated December 9, 2020