United States courts of appeals
Circuit population
Based on 2010 United States Census figures, the population residing in each circuit is as follows.

United States courts of appeals

Section Title: Circuit population
Table Section Text: Based on 2010 United States Census figures, the population residing in each circuit is as follows.

Circuit	Authorized judges	Population	Percentage of US population	Population per authorized judge

D.C. Circuit	11	601,723	0.19%	54,702

1st Circuit	6	13,970,816	4.47%	2,328,469

2nd Circuit	13	23,577,940	7.54%	1,813,688

3rd Circuit	14	22,498,612	7.19%	1,607,044

4th Circuit	15	29,788,417	9.52%	1,985,894

5th Circuit	17	32,646,230	10.44%	1,920,366

6th Circuit	16	32,105,616	10.26%	2,006,601

7th Circuit	11	25,001,420	7.99%	2,272,856

8th Circuit	11	20,568,237	6.58%	1,869,840

9th Circuit	29	61,742,908	19.74%	2,129,066

10th Circuit	12	17,020,355	5.44%	1,418,363

11th Circuit	12	33,268,699	10.64%	2,772,392

Federal Circuit	12	N/A	N/A	N/A

Total	179	312,790,973	100%	1,747,436

Sentence(s)

There are 179 judgeships on the U.S. courts of appeals.

final_sentence: There are 179 judgeships on the U.S. courts of appeals.