An estimated 770,000 people — the most since at least 2007 — were homeless as of January 2024.
This bar chart shows the yearly estimate of homeless people in the U.S. since 2010, when about 640,000 were homeless. That estimate declined to 550,000 in 2016, then began increasing again except for a dip during the pandemic, up to 582,000 in 2022, 653,000 in 2023 and 771,000 in 2024.