The number of Orange County, Riverside County, and San Bernardino County residents filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy has not slowed from August to September in 2009.

The ten Orange County cities with the highest number of Chapter 7 bankruptcies filed during September 2009, as reported in the Orange County Bankruptcies Blog,  are as follows:

Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Irvine, Lake Forest, Mission Viejo, Orange, and Santa Ana.

Chapter 7 bankruptcies filed by residents of Riverside County and San Bernardino County are filed in the Riverside Bankruptcy Courthouse.  Data from that court, according to the Riverside Bankruptcy Blog, reports the following ten cities as having the highest number of Chapter 7 bankruptcies for residents of those counties:

Corona, Fontana, Moreno Valley, Murrieta, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Riverside, San Bernardino, Temecula, and Victorville.

Orange County Chapter 7 bankruptcy attorneys and bankruptcy lawyers from cities in the Inland Empire are not only seeing a rise in the number of filings in the aforementioned cities, but in smaller cities within each county as well.  For every Anaheim there is a Laguna Niguel, for every Riverside there is a Colton.  Bankruptcy filings for both consumers and small businesses in these counties continues to be widespread.