Updated January 2025. How Many People Experience Chronic Homelessness? On a single night in January 2024: There were 152,585 homeless individuals with chronic patterns of homelessness. That is nearly 20 percent of the total population of homeless individuals. Nearly 65 […]
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Children and Families
Updated January 2025. How Many Children and Families Experience Homelessness? On a single night in January 2024: An estimated 259,473 people in families were identified as homeless. Approximately 18,557 people in families were living on the street, in a car, […]
FAQs
Updated January 2025. Q: How many people are homeless? A: On a given night in 2024, at least 771,480 people experienced homelessness in the U.S. Throughout the calendar year 2022, an estimated 1,388,425 million people occupied emergency shelters, transitional […]
Income
Updated January 2025. Low-Income, High Risk Low-income households are typically unemployed or underemployed due to a number of factors, such as a challenging labor market; limited education; a gap in work history; a criminal record; unreliable transportation or unstable housing; […]
Homelessness and Racial Disparities
Updated January 2025. The most striking disparity can be found among African Americans, who represent 13 percent of the general population but account for 36.6 percent of people experiencing homelessness and more than 37 percent of homeless families with children. […]