2024 PIT count results
The results of the 2024 Point in Time Count are currently being tabulated. The results of the count will be released when they are completed.
2023 PIT count finds more homeless families, fewer single adults, people experiencing unsheltered, chronic homelessness
Census aimed to learn where people spent the night on January 25, 2023
The count found that in Hennepin County, 2,843 people were staying in shelters and transitional housing programs, and 469 people were experiencing unsheltered homelessness.
Those numbers compare with 2,191 and 487, respectively, in 2022, when Hennepin County counted the lowest number ever of people experiencing homelessness.
They are the highest since 2019, when staff and volunteers counted 2,797 people in shelters and 603 people in unsheltered settings.
When the count started in 2005, 3,058 people were in shelters and 357 were in unsheltered settings.
The overall increase in people using shelter was driven by a spike in families experiencing homelessness. That number was up by 79%, after a several-year downward trend. A number of causes factored into that change, including the end of the eviction moratorium, record inflation affecting prices of food and fuel, and other issues.
As a result of Hennepin County’s shelter-all policy for families, more than 99% of those families were in shelter or transitional housing.
Homelessness was down among several other populations since 2022:
- Single adults: -7%
- People in unsheltered settings: -4%
- Veterans: -5%
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