Access to Justice Index

The 3rd edition broadens the pro se measure from eviction cases alone to the combined eviction and small-claims debt-collection docket — the debt-collection docket runs a higher self-represented rate than eviction, and a measure scoped to eviction alone was undercounting who actually goes through court without a lawyer. The Blackstone Research Council reviewed the change before this edition's method was frozen, 2027-09-01. Coverage stays at the same six counties as the 2nd edition, so what moves below is the method, not the map — both this edition's figures and the change from the 2nd edition are computed under the new method, and the 2nd edition is restated under it below rather than left standing beside a number that method wouldn't have produced.