A Day of Homelessness

Homelessness in Ohio is tracked every year with a point in time count. Starting at midnight and continuing for 24 hours on January 24, 2012, social services staff and volunteers worked to locate and document the county’s homeless.  The count is an activity of the Ashtabula Housing Council to assist in addressing the continuum of care to homelessness in the county.  Additional information about this year's count can be read in this article:

Point In Time Article

Last year, the count was held on January 25, 2011.  The following data represent the number of people experiencing homelessness at that point in time:

• 13,003 Ohioans were homeless on a single day in 2011, 4.8% more than in 2010.
  
• 5,218 Ohioans in families with children were homeless in 2011, 8.4% more than in 2010 which is the highest level of family homelessness since statewide reporting began.
• 11,197 Ohioans were in shelters or transitional housing in 2011, 5.9% more than in 2010, and the highest number since statewide reporting began.
• In 2011, the number of unsheltered homeless in Ohio living on the streets or other places not meant for human habitation remained virtually unchanged at 1,806 people.
• 2,164 persons were chronically homeless during 2011. The number of chronically homeless was virtually unchanged from 2010, when 2,161 people were chronically homeless.
• Chronically homeless ( people who are disabled and have been homeless for a long time, or experienced many episodes of homelessness in the recent past) made up 16.6% of Ohio’s total homeless population in 2011.

If you would like to read the entire 2011 Ohio Homelessness Report from the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio, please click here.