Unaccompanied Children Custody Transfers Between Agencies

Daily counts track unaccompanied minors moving between U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody and Health and Human Services care. The dataset is published by datahub.hhs.gov and was last updated in April 2026. It provides metrics on children apprehended, in custody, transferred out, and discharged.

Use Cases

• Analyze daily correlation between 'Children apprehended and placed in CBP custody' and subsequent 'Children transferred out of CBP custody' to model processing delays.
• Forecast shelter capacity needs by modeling the 'Children in HHS Care' time-series against 'Children discharged from HHS Care'.
• Detect anomalies in agency handoff efficiency by comparing 'Children in CBP custody' and 'Children transferred out of CBP custody' on specific 'Date' ranges.

Strengths

• Provides six distinct operational metrics for daily tracking.
• Data is sourced directly from the authoritative datahub.hhs.gov domain.

Limitations

• Total record count and temporal coverage are unknown.
• Data granularity is limited to daily national aggregates without demographic breakdowns.

Provenance

Source

datahub.hhs.gov

Collection Method

Administrative records from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Department of Health and Human Services custody transfers.

Freshness

Last updated April 2026.

Geography

United States