California Courts of Appeal Jurisdictions

<p>This table matches counties with their district in the California Courts of Appeal, with a record for each county matching it to the district it is in. Many counties make up each district, so there is a one to many relationship matching districts to counties.</p><p><span style='font-size:24px;'>Working with California Courts Appeal Jurisdictions&nbsp;</span><br />Download the data locally and join it to a county boundary layer based on County names.</p><p>A <i><strong>CDT maintained California County Boundary and Identifiers</strong></i> layer can be found on the Geoportal &nbsp;for Download:<br /><a target='_blank' href='https://gis.data.ca.gov/datasets/California::california-county-boundaries-and-identifiers/about' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>https://gis.data.ca.gov/datasets/California::california-county-boundaries-and-identifiers/about</a></p><p>A <i><strong>CDT maintained California County Boundary and Identifiers with Coastal Buffers</strong></i> layer can be found on the Geoportal &nbsp;for Download:<br /><a target='_blank' href='https://gis.data.ca.gov/datasets/California::california-county-boundaries-and-identifiers-with-coastal-buffers/about' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>https://gis.data.ca.gov/datasets/California::california-county-boundaries-and-identifiers-with-coastal-buffers/about</a></p><p>Judicial Branch of California's webpage can be accessed at <a target='_blank' href='https://courts.ca.gov/policy-administration/judicial-council' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>https://courts.ca.gov/policy-administration/judicial-council</a><br />PDF Maps provided by the Courts: <a target='_blank' href='https://courts.ca.gov/news-reference/reports-publications/maps' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>https://courts.ca.gov/news-reference/reports-publications/maps</a>&nbsp;<br />For general Judicial Council questions please email <a href='mailto:[e-mail]' rel='nofollow ugc'><span style='font-size:11pt;'>[e-mail]</span></a>.</p><p>For specific data related questions please email <a href='mailto:[e-mail]' rel='nofollow ugc'>[e-mail]</a>.<br />This data was received from the Judicial Council on 9/2/25.</p><p><span style='font-size:24px;'>Fields:</span></p><ol><li><i><span><strong>District_Number</strong></span></i><span>: Text value for district number, including the word "District" - e.g. "District 2".</span></li><li><i><span><strong>County</strong></span></i><span>: Text name of each county, without the word "County" - this field may be joined to the field "CDT_Name_Short" in the previously linked datasets.</span></li></ol>