Homeless Counts in Major U.S. Cities and Counties

 By the Institute for the study of Homelessness and Poverty at the Weingart Center.  HUD has requested a one-day count of the number of homeless people.  These are the results from January or February 2005.  The first column is the total number of homeless counted.  The second column is the percentage of that population that were homeless for one year or experienced four episodes over the last three years.  The third column is the population of the County or City and the last is the percentage of homeless vs. total population.  These numbers for Cuyahoga County and most cities do not include those living in abandoned buildings, and some cities seem to do more estimating than Cuyahoga County.

    City                                Homeless             %                Total               % of

                                           Population     Long Term     Population      Homeless

Detroit, MI	14,827	9%	900,198	1.6%
Orange Co. CA	34,898	70%	2098 million	12%
Washington D.C.	5,518	32%	553,000	1.0%
Boston, MA	5,819	17%	569,000	1.0%
Long Beach, CA	4,475	24%	476,000	0.9%
Los Angeles Co., CA	91,000	42%	9.93 million	0.9%
Hillsborough Co., FL (Tampa, FL)	9,921	13%	1010 million	0.9%
Pasadena (City), CA	1,217	32%	144,000	0.8%
Multnomah Co., OR (Portland, OR)	5,104	34%	672,000	0.8%
San Francisco, Co., CA	6,248	28%	744,000	0.8%
Clark County, NV (includes Las Vegas)	12,198	16%	1,650,671	0.7%
Bernalillo County, NM (includes Alburquerque)	3,649	20%	593,765	0.6%
Contra Costa Co., CA	6,271	31%	1,009,144	0.6%
DeKalb/Fulton Co. GA (includes Atlanta)	6,832	9%	1,490,163	0.5%
Baltimore (City), MD	2,904	14%	636,251	0.5%
King Co. (Seattle) WA	8,336	35%	1,777,143	0.5%
Milwaukee (City), WI	2,818	19%	583,624	0.5%
Philadelphia, (Co.) , PA	6,653	7%	1,470,151	0.5%
Santa Clara Co., CA	7,646	35%	1,685,188	0.5%
--Cuyahoga Co, OH	2,208	52%	1,088,971	0.2%

Copyright: NEOCH Homeless Grapevine; Cleveland, Ohio-December 2205/ Issue 73