More than 650,000 people were homeless in the US in 2023
Surveys conducted on a single day in cities nationwide each January show homelessness rising since 2016. Data for 2021 does not show the total counts of people experiencing homelessness or all people experiencing unsheltered homelessness because of pandemic-related disruptions to counts.
Bar chart showing yearly counts of homeless people in the US at a single point in time, conducted yearly from 2007 through 2023, with total decreasing in the mid-2010s, then starting to rise in 2019 and increasing sharply in 2023.
