Introduction and a Note on Uncertainty
Welcome to the state dashboard for California! This dashboard contains graphics and maps visualizing FOIA’d EOIR data. These data come directly from EOIR and has only received limited cleaning and validation. This dashboard is meant to help explore the data from a high level and to identify potential trends or areas of concern that may require more in-depth research. This dashboard is designed to help non-technical advocates look at what attributes and variables are available in the data. This dashboard CANNOT inform conclusive statements about immigration cases or proceeding.
Overview
Geographic Overview
Other attributes may be represented geographically in the future
Demographics
Below is an interactive graph showing each the national origin of cases in California over the last ten years. The x-axis (horizontal) represents the total number of cases from each country over the ten-year period. The bars for each country are divided by year to demonstrate changes over time. Hover over each bar segment to see more information about that country’s cases.
Below is an interactive graph showing the spoken languages other than Spanish and English of cases in California over the last ten years. The x-axis (horizontal) represents the total number of cases from identified spoken language over the ten-year period. The bars for each language are divided by year to demonstrate changes over time. Hover over each bar segment to see more information about that language’s cases. Note that the totals and percent of cases speaking Spanish or English are stated in the footnote, and those numbers are a total from the ten-year period.
Below is a graph with colors representing the proportion of all cases in each year for each gender option. It is important to note here that, historically, a high proportion of cases have an unknown value for gender, but very generally assumptions about overall trends may be gleaned from the changes in proportions over time. Reminder: this is unverified data and not to be used for any conclusive statements.
Below is a graph showing the gender value counts over time. The lines represent the total number of cases with each gender designations.
The following graph uses country of origin and language as a proxy for race to determine the racial demographics of individuals. As always, country and language is an imperfect proxy, so consider that when interpreting these trends. Cases with people from the Caribbean and Africa have been categorized as Black. Case categorized as Hispanic have been omitted from the graph to improve readability.
The non-Black country categories are shown as the lighter part of the bars, and Caribbean and African categories are in full color. The numbers above the bars indicate the change in case counts for individuals categorized as Black. For example, 2015 saw 119 more cases categorized as Black than 2014, and 2023 saw 2,296 more cases categorized as Black than 2022.
Detention
The graph below displays the total cases for each year and are colored according to detention status. The second graph is the same data but without the nondetained portion of the bar for a zoomed in look at cases for individuals who are or were detained at some point.
Criminal case history
The two graphs below are similar to the gender graphs in that the first shows the proportions of criminal cases for cases in each year, and the second shows the counts over time for the total number of criminal cases, non-criminal cases, and unknown criminal status.
Representation Rates by County
Below is an interactive graph showing each county as a point on a scatterplot. The x-axis (horizontal) represents the Representation Rate of each county over the ten-year period. The y-axis (vertical) represents the Rural Population Percentage of each county over the ten-year period. Hover over each point to see more information about that county.
Below is an interactive graph showing the 20 counties in California with the lowest representation rates. The x-axis (horizontal) represents the Representation Rate of each county over the ten-year period. Hover over each bar to see more information about that county.
Stats Folks Only
The following plots are meant to be interpreted only by folks with a statistics background. Some of the visualization may be misleading to the untrained eye. Additionally, as with all the graphics on this page, these are only visualizations of a preliminary exploratory analysis uniform across all states without any of the nuance of intentional analysis or the consideration specific to that location.
Please interpret with caution!
These plots are meant to give a researcher a quick high level view of what is in the data and not a legitimate or publishable finding.
