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Table 1: Relationship of County Population to Homeless Population
<br />Total
<br />Population=
<br />Homeless
<br />Population
<br />Percent of
<br />Total
<br />2013 Count
<br />3,090,132
<br />4,251
<br />0.14%
<br />2015 Count
<br />3,145,515
<br />4,452
<br />0.14%
<br />2017 Count
<br />3,194,024
<br />4,792
<br />0.15%
<br />And while the homeless population has grown moderately, the growth (again, via the 2017 Count) came
<br />from persons outside of any shelter:
<br />2013
<br />%of Total
<br />2015
<br />%of Total
<br />2017
<br />%of Total
<br />%change
<br />2015-2017
<br />Sheltered
<br />2 573
<br />61%
<br />2,251
<br />51%
<br />2,208
<br />46%
<br />-2%
<br />Unsheltered
<br />1,678
<br />39%
<br />2,201
<br />49%
<br />2,584
<br />54V.
<br />17%
<br />Total
<br />4,251
<br />100%
<br />4,452
<br />100%
<br />1 4792
<br />100%
<br />8%
<br />As a result, cities and city residents were -experiencing greater numbers of visible homeless - on streets
<br />and medians, under overpasses, along`riverbed_s and storm•drain channels, and in parks and other
<br />facilities.
<br />The 2017 PIT also allowed us to compare trends in fiomelessness across.5outhern California. As the
<br />below chart shows, the count of homelessness injanuary 2017-appears t&show an increase in Orange
<br />County (and in the cities of LA and.5an Diego) everi,as it went down elsewhere:
<br />CoC
<br />Population
<br />2015 PIT
<br />2026 PIT
<br />2017 PIT
<br />2015-2017 %
<br />Change
<br />Los Angeles
<br />9,416,024
<br />41,174
<br />43,854
<br />55,189
<br />34.0%
<br />San Diego
<br />3,316,192
<br />8,742
<br />8,669
<br />9,116
<br />4.3%
<br />Orange
<br />3,194,024
<br />4,452
<br />4,319
<br />4,792
<br />7.6%
<br />Riverside
<br />2,384,783
<br />2,372
<br />2,165
<br />2,406
<br />1.4%
<br />San Bernardino
<br />2,160,256
<br />2,149
<br />1,887
<br />1,866
<br />o ' -13i'2%F,
<br />Ventura
<br />857,386
<br />1,417
<br />1,271
<br />1,152
<br />1817
<br />Long Beach
<br />480,173
<br />2,345
<br />2,250
<br />1,863
<br />Pasadena
<br />143,333
<br />632
<br />530
<br />1 57590%E
<br />As to the chronically homeless population, it consists of about 19% of all homeless, but increased by
<br />about 60% between the 2015 and the 2017 Point in Time counts.
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