The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) provides services to over 30,000 children in any given month. The data provided herein represent a 'snapshot' of the department’s caseload as of December 31, 2016. Only the most basic information is included for statistical purposes. Names and specific locations are not provided. As an extra precaution, if fewer than 20 records were found in a given ZIP Code, those records having that ZIP Code were not included in this table. More information on this dataset is available in the attached caseload_dec_2016_current_zip.pdf. Locations of the geographic center of the ZIP Code stated in the CURRENT_ZIP field were provided for analytical purposes. GIS polygons used to compute geographic center locations were provided by Esri (https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=8d2012a2016e484dafaac0451f9aea24).