Bankruptcy filings in the Central District in February 2020

Filings in February compared to last three months and compared to Feb in last three years are all within couple % of each other.

2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
Jan 2,828 2,745 2,741 2,839 2,872 3,364 4,704
Feb 2,781 2,754 2,708 2,795 3,299 3,829 4,574
March 3,481 3,363 3,782 3,923 4,496 5,430
April 3,631 3,277 3,209 3,584 4,486 5,364
May 3,347 3,226 3,384 3,484 3,971 5,500
June 2,967 2,981 3,252 3,545 3,966 4,386
July 3,270 3,057 2,953 3,239 3,731 4,701
Aug 3,274 3,337 3,387 3,543 3,544 4,540
Sept 2,934 2,772 3,071 3,168 3,493 4,317
Oct 3,355 3,259 3,170 3,235 3,751 4,554
Nov 2,636 2,821 3,004 3,025 3,531 3,642
Dec 2,723 2,419 2,416 2,902 2,718 3,733
Total 5,609 37,117 35,961 37,262 39,819 44,880 55,445

Filings by chapter year to date:

Non-Comm’l Commercial Chapter 7 Chapter 13 Chapter 11
5,110 501 4,285 1,256 69
91% 9% 76% 22% 1%

“Commercial” I believe means a corporate type entity.  That means there have been more than 400 corporate chapter 7s.  I’m always surprised there are any much less that many.

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