Los Angeles homelessness declined in the finalized 2025 point-in-time count, but the region still recorded 72,195 people experiencing homelessness across Los Angeles County and 43,695 within the City of Los Angeles. These estimates describe one night in January or February 2025, and the geographies are not interchangeable.
Contents
- Overall trends
- Sheltered and unsheltered homelessness
- Households, families, and age groups
- Race, gender, and age
- Chronic homelessness, health, and safety
- Geographic concentration
- Housing placements and response outcomes
Overall trends
The finalized 2025 Los Angeles County point-in-time estimate was 72,195 people experiencing homelessness on a single night. The comparable City of Los Angeles estimate was 43,695 people. LAHSA’s finalized results report that County homelessness fell 4% from the 2024 count, while City of Los Angeles homelessness fell 3.4%.LAHSA, LAHSA Releases Finalized 2025 Homeless Count Results After HUD Review
The recent published totals are:
| Point-in-time count | Los Angeles County | City of Los Angeles |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 75,518 | 46,260 |
| 2024 | 75,312 | 45,252 |
| 2025 finalized | 72,195 | 43,695 |
The 2023 figures come from LAHSA’s 2023 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count results, while the 2024 figures are reported in LAHSA’s 2024 comparison coverage.LAHSA, LAHSA Releases Results Of 2023 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count LAHSA, Unsheltered Homelessness Drops And Sheltered Homelessness Rises In LA
These are point-in-time estimates, not a count of every person who experienced homelessness during a full year. The 2025 LAHSA summaries are for a single night in January or February 2025 and use the finalized October 2025 revision where available.
That timing matters when comparing annual figures, because changes may reflect both conditions and the limits of a one-night survey.
Sheltered and unsheltered homelessness
The 2025 County estimate included 24,745 sheltered people and 47,450 unsheltered people. In the City of Los Angeles, 16,723 people were sheltered and 26,972 were unsheltered. The published figures show that unsheltered homelessness remained the larger category in both geographies.LAHSA, Hc25 County Data Summary Revised October 2025 LAHSA, Hc25 City Of LA Data Summary Revised October 2025
For comparison, the 2024 County estimate included 52,365 unsheltered people and 22,947 sheltered people. The City of Los Angeles recorded 29,275 unsheltered people and 15,977 sheltered people in that count.LAHSA, Unsheltered Homelessness Drops And Sheltered Homelessness Rises In LA
Sheltered and unsheltered point-in-time counts are estimates with published margins of error. They should therefore be read as statistical snapshots rather than exact administrative totals. The category also describes where people were counted on the survey night, not the complete sequence of housing situations they may have experienced before or after it.
Households, families, and age groups
The 2025 County summary reported 64,374 homeless households. It also counted 60,649 homeless individuals who were not in family units. Within the County’s age breakdown, 58,216 people were adults aged 25 and older, 2,378 were transitional-age youth aged 18–24, and 55 were unaccompanied minors under 18.LAHSA, Hc25 County Data Summary Revised October 2025
Families with children were a smaller but substantial part of the County picture. There were 3,725 family households with at least one child under 18, 11,546 homeless family members, and 6,103 homeless family members under 18. The City of Los Angeles separately reported 38,812 homeless households and 2,291 family households with at least one child under 18.LAHSA, Hc25 County Data Summary Revised October 2025 LAHSA, Hc25 City Of LA Data Summary Revised October 2025
Household, individual, family, and age categories are different measures and should not be added together as if they were parallel population totals. They help describe composition, while the headline point-in-time estimate describes people counted on a single night.
Race, gender, and age
The 2025 City of Los Angeles estimate included 28,774 men or boys, representing 66% of the homeless population, and 14,552 women or girls, representing 33%. Published demographic categories can overlap, and the percentages are prevalence figures rather than additive shares.LAHSA, Hc25 City Of LA Data Summary Revised October 2025
The same City summary reported 20,070 Hispanic or Latina/e/o people, or 46%; 14,221 Black, African American, or African people, or 33%; 12,293 White people, or 28%; and 1,413 American Indian, Alaska Native, or Indigenous people, or 3%. Because race and ethnicity categories can overlap, these percentages should not be totaled to estimate a single combined racial distribution.
Age indicators in the City estimate included 4,061 people under 18, representing 9%; 9,692 people aged 35–44, representing 22%; and 3,195 people aged 65–69, representing 7%. These selected age bands describe specific published groups and do not represent a complete age table here.
Chronic homelessness, health, and safety
Los Angeles County had 29,568 people experiencing chronic homelessness in 2025, representing 41% of the County homeless population. The City of Los Angeles had 17,099 people experiencing chronic homelessness, representing 39%.LAHSA, Hc25 County Data Summary Revised October 2025 LAHSA, Hc25 City Of LA Data Summary Revised October 2025
The City’s 2025 summary reported several health-related indicators among homeless adults: 9,895 people with a reported serious mental illness, representing 25%; 9,036 with a reported substance use disorder, representing 23%; 8,674 with a reported physical disability, representing 22%; 3,249 with a reported developmental disability, representing 8%; and 892 with reported HIV/AIDS, representing 2%.LAHSA, Hc25 City Of LA Data Summary Revised October 2025
The same source reported that 16,433 people, or 41%, reported domestic or intimate-partner-violence experience. A total of 3,964 people, or 10%, reported becoming homeless after fleeing domestic or intimate-partner violence. These health and safety indicators are reported categories; they can overlap and should not be interpreted as mutually exclusive causes or diagnoses.
Geographic concentration
Service Planning Area 4 is a narrower geography than Los Angeles County or the City of Los Angeles. It recorded 16,955 people experiencing homelessness in 2025, including 6,631 sheltered people and 10,324 unsheltered people.LAHSA, Hc25 SPA 4 Data Summary Revised October 2025
SPA 4’s demographic and household measures included 7,989 Hispanic or Latina/e/o people, representing 47%; 5,316 Black, African American, or African people, representing 31%; and 1,713 homeless family members, representing 10%. The area also had 7,486 people experiencing chronic homelessness, representing 44%.LAHSA, Hc25 SPA 4 Data Summary Revised October 2025
Los Angeles County combines the Los Angeles, Pasadena, Glendale, and Long Beach Continuums of Care. The City of Los Angeles and SPA 4 are narrower geographies, so their figures should not be treated as interchangeable with the County total.
Housing placements and response outcomes
Point-in-time counts and housing-placement measures answer different questions. LAHSA reported 27,300 permanent housing placements across Los Angeles County in 2023, an 18% increase over the prior year. Street-to-interim-housing placements through outreach increased 47% year over year from 2022 to 2023, and moves from interim housing to permanent housing increased 25% over the same period.LAHSA, Unsheltered Homelessness Drops And Sheltered Homelessness Rises In LA
For 2024, LAHSA reported nearly 27,994 permanent housing placements, 2.5% higher than the previous year, and 2,960 permanent supportive housing units created. More than 125,000 permanent housing placements had been made in Los Angeles since 2017 by the end of 2024. A total of 11,146 people transitioned from interim housing to permanent housing in 2024, a 23.5% increase, while more than 60,000 people accessed Los Angeles homeless services for the first time that year.LAHSA, Declining Homelessness Is Now A Trend In Los Angeles County
These response figures are administrative or program measures covering different periods from the annual point-in-time count. They indicate housing activity and service access, but they are not direct substitutes for the one-night estimates of people experiencing homelessness.