California Courts of Appeal Jurisdictions

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.

Working with California Courts Appeal Jurisdictions 
Download the data locally and join it to a county boundary layer based on County names.

A CDT maintained California County Boundary and Identifiers layer can be found on the Geoportal  for Download:
https://gis.data.ca.gov/datasets/California::california-county-boundaries-and-identifiers/about

A CDT maintained California County Boundary and Identifiers with Coastal Buffers layer can be found on the Geoportal  for Download:
https://gis.data.ca.gov/datasets/California::california-county-boundaries-and-identifiers-with-coastal-buffers/about

Judicial Branch of California's webpage can be accessed at https://courts.ca.gov/policy-administration/judicial-council
PDF Maps provided by the Courts: https://courts.ca.gov/news-reference/reports-publications/maps 
For general Judicial Council questions please email JudicialCouncil@jud.ca.gov.

For specific data related questions please email gis@state.ca.gov.
This data was received from the Judicial Council on 9/2/25.

Fields:

1. District_Number: Text value for district number, including the word "District" - e.g. "District 2".
2. County: 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.