On any given night, there are around 16,385 people experiencing homelessness in King County, report finds

A new Unsheltered Point-In-Time Count found that over 16,000 people experience homelessness in King County on any given night.The PIT count is required every other year by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to effectively allocate federal funds to work to end homelessness regionally. However, the King County Regional Homelessness Authority said that those can often be an undercount.

Census only 6% of King County’s population identifies as Black/African American. Similarly, 7% of people experiencing homelessness identify as American Indian, Alaskan Native, or Indigenous, but that group makes up only 1% of King County’s population," KCHRA said of their study. Prior to 2022, the unsheltered PIT was conducted by volunteers one night in January, using a census and survey.

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