Older Black, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander Californians Disproportionately Experience Homelessness

Percent of Unhoused Individuals Assisted by Homeless Service Providers, FY 2022-23

A horizontal stacked bar chart of the percent of unhoused individuals assisted by California homeless service providers in the 2022-23 fiscal year, where older Black, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander Californians are overrepresented when compared to their share of the total state population. Californians who are multiple races, Asian, Latinx, and white were underrepresented.
Note: Race/ethnicity are mutually exclusive. State population estimates are for the 2022 calendar year.
Source: Budget Center analysis of US Census Bureau, American Community Survey public-use microdata downloaded from IPUMS-USA and custom tabulations from the California Homeless Data Integration SystemDownload image