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California eviction research

State context for eviction filings, plus directories of California counties and major cities. Cited volumes come from named public sources — never from a fabricated local count.

What a filing means in California

An eviction filing is a court case asking a judge for possession of a rental unit. It is not a lockout. Self-help lockouts, utility shutoffs, and removing belongings without a court process are illegal. Local courts and executing offices set their own calendars — we do not publish guaranteed timelines.

California residential evictions are typically filed as unlawful detainer actions in the superior court of the county where the property sits.

EvictIQ operational timestamps (service attempts, writ applications, setout windows) are not claimed for this state. What follows is process education and public-source geography, not a field-coverage claim.

None of this is legal advice. Statutes, local rules, and court practice change.

Sources for any judgment or rate figures: Princeton Eviction Lab 2016 rankings (rankings tool). Geography: U.S. Census Bureau county and place files.

Major cities

59 listed cities have a cited Eviction Lab 2016 judgment count or rate on the city page. State ranking extract.

Counties and county-equivalents

Every California county-equivalent has a page. Templates are intentionally thin: a filing is a court case, not a lockout, and we do not invent a county filing total when we do not have one.

All 58 California counties

Showing the first 24 alphabetically. Use the full county index for the rest.

Using this as research, not a hire form

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